Culturally Situated Agents -- Using Immersive Simulations to Develop Intercultural Competence -- Cross-Cultural Study on Facial Regions as Cues to Recognize Emotions of Virtual Agents -- Availability of Multilingual Chat Communication in 3D Online Virtual Space -- Capture and Express Behavior Environment (CEBE) for Realizing Enculturating Human-Agent Interaction -- Intercultural Collaboration and Support Systems -- Hesitation in Intercultural Communication: Some Observations and Analyses on Interpreting Shoulder Shrugging -- A Socio-Cultural Model Based on Empirical Data of Cultural and Social Relationships -- Dynamic Term Suggestion for Searching Multilingual School Documents -- Intercultural Collaboration Support System Using Disaster Safety Map and Machine Translation -- Development of a Multilingual Translation Service for Interpretations and Usage Examples of Mobile Phone Pictograms -- Culture and Computing for Art and Heritage -- Cultural Computing - Creative Power Integrating Culture, Unconsciousness and Software -- Logos, Pathos, and Entertainment -- Digital Conservation of Cultural Assets -- Automatic Knowledge Acquisition from Historical Document Archives: Historiographical Perspective -- Culture and Computing in Regional Communities -- Virtual Kyoto Project: Digital Diorama of the Past, Present, and Future of the Historical City of Kyoto -- A Platform for Mining and Visualizing Regional Collective Culture -- A Web Strategy for Cultural Inheritance Centered on Agriculture Case Study Approach: The Olive Project in Shodoshima Japan -- Area Informatics - Concept and Status -.