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The papers in this publication are based on presentations given during the symposium. They give empirical evidence of regional decline in selected peripheries of Japan and Europe and describe the economic and political challenges local and regional governments are facing, as well as showing ways and means to address such challenges at various parts of government. The case-study reports from Japan and Europe made it clear that in times of globalization and structural change, peripheries and the people living and working in the peripheries of the two macro-regions, are not forgotten and that policy makers are well aware of the problems. The discussions confirmed that in market economies and without strong intervention of the public sector, there are no easy recipes to stop territorial concentration in metropolitan regions and to stabilize local and regional economies in the periphery.

Angelika Viets: Preface Shôji Makoto: Greetings to the Symposium Tanabe Ikuo: Prologue – Japanese Archaeology Today Ono Akira: The Upper Paleolithic of the Japanese Archipelago: Dating and Criteria for Comparison Inada Takashi: Settlement and Hunting in the Japanese Upper Paleolithic Period Nicholas J. Conard: Early Figurative Art and Musical Instruments from Swabia Michael Baales: Climate, Environment and Archaeology at the End of the Last Glacial Period in Central Europe Okada Yasuhiro: The Jômon Sannai-Maruyama Site – Excavations and Results Okamura Michio: The Sannai-Maruyama Settlement in the Context of Jômon Culture. Changes of Settlement Forms and Ways of Life During the Jomon Period Tsuji Seiichirô: The Ecosystem of the Sannai-Maruyama Site. Characteristics of the Culture and Ecosystem of the Jômon Period Harunari Hideji: From Jômon to Yayoi. An Analysis Based on the Early Yayoi Custom of Tooth Extraction and on Burial Grounds Shiraishi Taichirô: From Yayoi to Kofun – The Emergence of the Country of the Wa and Its Culture Tanabe Ikuo: The Beginning of a New Age. The Establishment of an Autocratic Unified State and the Adoption of Buddhism Werner E. Stöckli: On the Use of Chronology and Periodization for European Prehistory