我简要通报一下1998年日本的、准确地讲是东京的戏剧状况。近来关西戏剧①也呈现出活跃的景象，但戏剧的中心依然是东京。所以，根据东京的戏剧，即可大致推断全国的戏剧。概况每年岁末，《朝日新闻》都要发表回顾本年度戏剧的文章和5位评论家各自推选的最好的10部戏。去年，除 I brief you on the situation of Japan in 1998 and, to be precise, the theater in Tokyo. Kansai drama ① recently also showed an active scene, but the center of the drama is still Tokyo. So, based on Tokyo’s drama, you can roughly infer the country’s drama. At the end of each year, Asahi Shimbun published an article reviewing this year’s drama and the best 10 films each of the five critics chose. Last year, except