The original papers appeared in theJournal of Japanese Forestry Societyvol. 86, no. 3 in Japanese with English abstracts.

The article presents papers related to Japanese forestry that appear in the 2005 issue of the "Journal of Forest Research." The paper "Evaluation of shelter effect of the windbreak using the critical wind speed," by Hajime Ozawa and Tomoki Sakamoto evaluated the shelter effect of an inland windbreak for protecting outdoor activities at a social welfare institution in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The paper "Seasonal changes and spatial distribution patterns of the adult podocarp bark borer, Hirticlytus comosus, captured with sticky traps," by Yoshikazu Sato suggests that the small-scale dispersion of adults from their emergence trees causes aggregative distribution.