This Zappa/Mothers/Alice Cooper special is in total 22 pages, several articles by different authors. Below is the detailed table of contents.
26 特集＝マザーズとその息子たち：
   28 薔薇色の蛇―或いは、路上の血溜りに （ 征木高司 )
   32 騒音と冗談によるアジテーション（ 宮澤壮佳 ）
   38 年寄りには難解、若者にはわかる―マザーズ、ファッグズたちの音楽（ 八木康夫 ）
   42 鏡の中のアリス・クーパー（ 北中正和 ）

English translation of this press conference is available at www.ne.jp/asahi/studio/tan/zappa/197604_nmm.htm.

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This Zappa/Beefheart special is in total 22 pages, several articles by different authors. Below is the detailed table of contents.
42 特集：永遠のアバンギャルド、ザッパとビーフハート
   43 一段と磨きのかかってきた音楽性と演劇性　…　中村とうよう
   49 狂気とユーモアのうしろに潜むマジメ人間　…　小倉エージ
   54 １５年も狂気のパワーを持続したビーフハート　…　山名昇
   60 フランク・ザッパ・アンド・ザ・マザーズ・オブ・インヴェンション・ディスコグラフィー

TAN Mitsugu: "For this issue, the editors of the magazine asked Kojima Sachiho (the leader of Japanese all-girl rock band Zelda) to write an article on FZ. The main focus was on his latest release Them Or Us, which was also picked up by the magazine's monthly album review."

This Zappa special is in total 28 pages, several articles by different authors. Below is the detailed table of contents.
11 特集：汲めども尽きぬフランク・ザッパの奇妙な世界
   13 革新的中学生の優越感をあざわらったザッパとマザーズ　…　鈴木博文
   19 財布の中身とニラメッコ…ザッパの猛烈なリリース・ラッシュ　…　河西正樹
   28 ザッパ究極のディスコグラフィー
   34 ザッパをとりまくレコーディング・メンバー２０年の変遷

TAN Mitsugu: This article is interesting, because the interview was part of the business meeting between FZ and Hidaka Masahiro (the president of Smash Corporation, now famous for organizing the Fuji Rock Festival). At Hidaka's request, the author accompanied him as a translator, and the two visited FZ's house on November 23, 1986.

Although Hidaka was eager to seek the possibility of the Japanese tour, he was disappointed when FZ told him that the standard concert tour needed at least $500,000. At the same time, however, FZ was interested in doing a mixed-media show featuring his music and "oiran" (courtesans in old-time Japan). (Obviously he was inspired by the oiran show that he had seen during the Tokyo press conference in 1976.) He insisted that this was the only possible plan of his performance in Japan, saying: "Well, I have a project of TV program now.... If it doesn't go well, I might do a concert tour. But I'm not so into touring, because I haven't touched my guitar for two years, and my physical condition is not that good due to the accident that I had during a concert tour."

After the negotiation ended, Hanafusa started an interview in a more usual manner. Topics included: why doing projects in various fields, music critics, his own record company, Moon and Dweezil, new project for TV program (probably "Nite School"), and politics.

You can find the digitized version of this article on the author's website: lovepeace.org/t/8611zappa.html

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TAN Mitsugu: In the late '80s, when CDs were rapidly becoming popular, the last few pages of Music Magazine became "CD Magazine", which was specialized in the latest compact disc releases. The feature of this month was the Ryko reissues of FZ's early albums.

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TAN Mitsugu:

(1) A memorial article from the translator who was involved with FZ's Japanese releases at the time. It has an interesting episode: When MSI got the deal with Barking Pumpkin to distribute CDs, FZ appointed Simon Prentis to be the "Semantic Scrutinizer", overseeing Mogi's translation. If Prentis or Mogi had any question, FZ would give them answers, sometimes ended up explaining much more than they expected. This process inspired FZ to start preparations for a kind of "dictionary" of his own idioms. (Unfortunately, the project never saw the light of day.) 

(2) Hagiwara's monthly column on CD reissues. This month, he picks up Captain Beefheart reissues from Warner Music Japan.