The world was first introduced to the expertise and originality
of Japanese scholars in phenomenology in Analecta Husserliana
Vol. IX (1979). The third generation of Japanese scholars, belonging
to the newly-founded Merleau-Ponty Japanese Circle, are now presented.
Following Merleau-Ponty''s tendency, the studies collected here seem to
make a fresh phenomenological start in relation to classical
Husserlian phenomenology, turning deliberately towards the concrete'',
the wild world'', flesh'', embodiment'', natural signs'', primal
nature''. The rule of intentionality, natural language is thereby
devalued.

The wealth of insights, the freshness of intuition and the seminal
power of these fascinating enquiries well merit a close reading.