Abstract
This report is a case study of peer reviewing when the author submitted a manuscript to the Japanese Journal of Humanistic Psychology about 10 years ago. The review results were of questionable quality. It did not seem that the criteria of each referee were consistent and in accordance with the J.J.H.P.'s byelaw. One of the referee's comments included even an obvious mistake. The article was on the relationship between C.R.Rogers, who had a huge influence on both education and clinical psychology in postwar Japan, and Christianity. The claims of the article should have been in disagreement with mainstream views of Japanese “Rogerians”. That referee seemed to have failed to understand the content of the article. One of the reasons the author take up this past incident now is that time enabled the author to reexamine the article and the referees' comments objectively and calmly. Discussing this case of poor reviewing should be important for improving the peer review.
