The Editor spent the entire summer of 1987 in the Far East. In early June, the Editor visited three universities in the People's Republic of China (PRO–Henan University in Kaifeng, Zhenjou Light Industry Institute in Zhenjou, and Luoyang Institute of Technology in Luoyang—in the Chinese Henan Province for two weeks. From the middle of June, the Editor was visiting professor in the College of Law, Meiji University in Tokyo, Japan, for five weeks. During this period, the Editor had occasion to lecture at Taisho University, Kokugakuin University, and Kinki University in Osaka. The Editor's earlier visit to Japan occurred in the spring semester of 1982—a sabbatical year—and resulted in collaborative research undertakings with a number of Japanese professors in the correctional field of study, a comparative study on police perceptions, and the relatively new field of “aquatic crime.” (See Hikaku Hosei, Vol. 23, No. 24, March, 1985 article entitled Crime and Delinquency Prevention Strategy in Japan, with Sadahiko Takahashi, pp. 221–234 for further detail). Since the Editor's first publication on comparative criminology (see e.g., Dae H. Chang, ed., Criminology: A Cross-Cultural Perspective 2-vol., Carolina Academic Press, 1976, pp. 1–1039) and publication of this journal in the same year, and subsequent efforts by Elmer Johnson, e.g., International Handbook of Contemporary Developments in Criminology, Greenwood Press, 1983; Louis I. Shelley, Readings in Comparative Criminology, Southern Illinois University Press, 1981; Graeme Newman, Comparative Deviance Perception and Law in Six Cultures, Elsevier North-Holland, 1976; Dane Archer and Rosemary Gartner, Violence and Crime in Cross-National Perspective, Yale University Press, 1984; Richard J. Terrill, World Criminal Justice Systems: A Survey, Anderson Publishing, 1984; Ruth Cavan, Delinquency and Crime: Cross-Cultural Perspective, Lippin-cott, 1968; to name just a few, have promoted comparative/cross-cultural/transnational approaches to the study of crime, delinquency and broader criminal justice topics. In fact, both the American Society of Criminology (ASC) and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) established International sections to encourage interdisciplinary and international collaborative research. The Editor conducted a survey regarding academic curriculum development in colleges and universities throughout the United States in 1979 with the cooperation of ACJS, revealing that majority of colleges and universities then that offer undergraduate or graduate degrees also offer comparative or international courses. It is strongly recommended to our readers that more efforts be made to encourage young scholars to enter collaborative research, to present papers through national and regional meetings, to offer more courses in transnational curriculums, and to publish such works in national and international journals. [Editor]. © 1988, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved. © 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.