| Message from Vice-President |  | Yasutoshi Washio | 5 | 
               
                | Features | [Future of TQM: Opinions from Overseas] |  |  | 
               
                | Introduction |  | Yukihiro Ando | 6 | 
               
                | Article | The Future of Quality in the United States | Brian L. Joiner | 7 | 
               
                | Article | The Future of TQM: A North American Perspective | Glenn Mazur | 10 | 
               
                | Article | Adaptation of Japanese Style TQM by American Companies | Satya P. Sharma | 20 | 
               
                | Article | Total Quality Control in Italy | Alberto Galgano | 25 | 
               
                | Article | Total Quality in Europe: Trends Past and Future | David Hutchins | 28 | 
               
                | Article | Maturity in Quality -Still to Come in Sweden | Lennart Sandholm | 31 | 
               
                | Article | Sift to Market Economy May Activate Chinese QC | Ma Lin | 34 | 
               
                | Article | A View on TQC Movement in Thailand | Prasit Tansuvan | 36 | 
               
                | Article | The Road toward Total Quality Management -A Taiwan Perspective- | H. Samuel Wang | 39 | 
               
                | Article | The Development of QC in Brazil and the Japanese style TQC | Dario Ikuo Miyake | 44 | 
               
                | Article | Comments on Overseas Opinions on Future of TQC/TQM | Takao Enkawa | 50 | 
               
                | Activity Report of Research Section | SQC | Ken Nishina | 53 | 
               
                | Activity Report of Research Section | Quality Management in Non-Profit Organization | Tadashi Ohfuji | 57 | 
              
               
                | Contributed Article | Role of Elements and Factors in Solving Problems and Using QC Technique | Nobiru Nakamura | 63 | 
               
                | Contributed Article | A Study on Product Value, Quality, Price and the Ability to Market Competitiveness | Toshiyuki Mochimoto | 72 | 
               
                | Quality Report | Final Report of the Committee on Quality Public Works | Jiro Kondo | 81 |