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