This study aimed to reveal the formation state of university students' future family prospects and to determine how the impact of their relationships with their parents and past daily life experiences affect these prospects. The following results were obtained: (1) University students have relatively clear expectations and hopes for their future family formation, but are not very concerned with their future family lives. (2) Students with good parental relationships and who have had abundant life experiences are likelier to form a view of their future family. Further, forming views of one's future family and lifestyle facilitates the construction of their future family prospects. (3) Family views were categorized into four types: non-interference, collaboration-oriented, independence-oriented, and omnidirectional-oriented. Lifestyle views were categorized into five types: self-growth-oriented, social relationships-oriented, self-oriented, theory-oriented, and indifferent. (4) University students' perceptions of their future family prospects differed depending on the types of family and lifestyle views they hold.

  In previous studies, we have suggested that limitations in long-term physical activity are the cause of the lower bone mineral density (BMD) observed in people with motor disability compared to those without motor disability. The present study aimed to investigate the factors related to fracture risk and thus help reduce the incidence of fractures in people with motor disability. The subjects were 19 males with motor disability. We obtained the following data from all subjects: age; height; weight; body mass index (BMI) ; BMD of the whole body, the whole body excluding the head, the lumbar spine, and total hip; and tissue weight percentage of fat, muscle, and bone. We conducted principal component analysis of each subject's data. The first principal component was interpreted as physique because the factor loadings for weight, body fat percentage, and BMI were high; and the second principal component was interpreted as BMD because the factor loadings for lumbar spine and total hip were high. The results of the present study suggest that height and weight stimuli are involved in BMD even in people with motor disability.

  There are a few widely known examples of bread made using wild yeast such as Shirakami yeast bread (S) and Hoshino natural leaven (H). However, little basic research has been conducted on these yeasts. Therefore, we prepared bread using these two types of yeast as well as instant dry yeast (D), with the aim of clarifying the effects of each yeast on bread characteristics. We measured the dynamic viscoelasticity of the dough, performed dough fermentation experiments, and evaluated the weight, volume, water content, color, texture, aromatic compound content, structure, and sensory evaluations of the breads. The fermentation experiments indicated that the effect of adding sugar was greatest on S dough and that H dough required more fermentation time. H bread was softer, had a sweeter flavor, and was the most favorably rated bread according to sensory evaluations. It is suspected that the quality of H bread was positively affected by amylases and proteases present in the leavening agent.

  Early childhood education and care (ECEC) experience in home economics is compulsory at junior high school. However, problems such as “cannot find a place to accept”, “burden of home economics teachers”, and “lack of understanding of school staff” are concerns for home economics teachers.

  Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine whether cooperation with the ECEC experience which is mainly conducted by external organizations such as child-rearing support administration leads to problem solving.

  As for the survey method, we first selected three wards involved in the implementation of the ECEC experience from the preliminary questionnaire survey to Tokyo's 23 wards.

  Next, we conducted an interview survey with the people in charge of child-rearing support administration in the 3 wards and analyzed the current situation of the ECEC experience. We analyzed the content of the interviews and the process leading up to the implementation of the ECEC experience. As a result, it was suggested that cooperation with the ECEC experience mainly conducted by external organizations such as child-rearing support administration may lead to the solution of the above three problems.

  Bashofu is a traditional summer textile of Okinawa, fibers of which are derived from leaf sheaths of the Itobasho plant. Coarse Bashofu was used to make working clothes for the general population in their daily lives. However, premium Bashofu for summer kimono is still produced from high-quality materials by artisans following sophisticated traditional procedures.

  In this study, we extracted Bashofu fibers from low-quality materials that are not used for premium textiles through a simple method. The conditions used in this study were reviewed in reference to historical records.

  Furthermore, the fibers were observed using microscopes. Due to their twisted and thick morphology, the fibers were lower in quality compared to those used for the premium Bashofu. However, with further improvements, our fibers may lead to the development of novel environmentally friendly materials for hot climates, given the fact that even low-quality Bashofu fibers were historically used by ordinary Okinawans.