This annual report by the Research and Clinical Center for Child Development at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan contains 10 articles by Japanese and American researchers on various aspects of children's cognitive and affective development. The following articles are presented: (1) "Making the Cut: Early Schooling and Cognitive Growth," by Frederick J. Morrison; (2) "Aspects of Children's Learning Behavior in Different Instructional Settings," by David E. Day and Gail E. Libertini; (3) "Achievement Motive in Japanese Children Revealed by Peer- and Self-Rating on Behavior Characteristics," by Misako Miyamoto; (4) "Japanese and American Mothers Perceiving and Evaluating Their 5-Month-Old Infants' Emotion Expressions: A Cross-Cultural Perspective," by Yuko Kanaya and others; (5) "Emotion Attuning Systems: Its Micro-Analysis in Infancy and Early Childhood," by Osamu Suda; (6) "The Microgenesis of Graphic Representation in Children," by Shing-jen Chen; (7) "Evaluation of One's Task Performance in Reflective and Impulsive Children: Analysis of Metacognition," by Hiroshi Usui; (8) "Analyzing Eye-Fixations to Assess Individual Differences in Solution Strategies for Spatial Tasks," by Kimiharu Satoh; (9) "Perspective Taking in Children's Drawings of Balls," by Yukari Shirotani; and (10) "A Quest for Parental Love: How Do Japanese Mothers Conceive Mother's Love?" by Kunio Wakai. (AC)