APIRA CONFERENCE, AUGUST 1998 IN OSAKA, JAPAN: A Journey to Osaka Postcard reflections on the APIRA Conference 1998.

The article presents information on the Second Asian Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting (APIRA) Conference held at the Osaka City University, Japan, during August 4-6, 1998. This conference was held in association with "Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal" and followed on from the inaugural APIRA network conference held in Sydney in 1995. Second APIRA Conference, the local Japanese organising committee and Osaka City University attracted over 160 delegates from 15 countries representing Europe, North America and the Asian-Pacific Region. The refereed papers programme had a strong interdisciplinary focus with research papers and forums addressing the relationship between accounting, auditing and accountability and their social, institutional, economic and political environment. An important outcome from the conference is the publication of the commentaries on several important areas including management accounting, public sector accounting, social and environmental accounting, critical perspectives on accounting, Japanese and international accounting, and accounting history.