At least 385 privately run nursing homes across Japan are violating the law by not registering with their prefectural government, according to a Kyodo News survey released Sunday. Under the elderly welfare law revised last April, registration is required for fee-based nursing homes regardless of size or services. Previously, the law applied only to those that accommodated at least ten people and served meals. The survey found that 385 facilities in 21 prefectures, out of 776 in 37 prefectures that authorities knew about, remain unregistered even though the revision brought them under the scope of the law. The tally only covers facilities that prefectural governments are aware of. There is no way of knowing how many actually exist. A facility in Urayasu, Chiba prefecture, where a resident was allegedly locked in a cage and others were subjected to abuse was entirely unknown to prefectural authorities until a former staff member notified the city in January that its residents were being abused. The Chiba prefectural government initially said the facility, Blue Cross Yukaikan, was an apartment complex accommodating not only seniors but also younger people It later corrected its view in line with a government guideline that facilities in which the majority of residents are seniors can be regarded as fee-based nursing homes. My own preoccupation with Monteverdi began with a graduate seminar taught by Charles Hamm at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,in which we attempted to understand Monteverdi's mensuration signs and their proportional relationships-a topic still unresolved in the Monteverdi literature and the subject of Chapter 20 of the present volume.Witnessing how little research had been devoted to Monteverdi's sacred music,I subsequently resolved to write my dissertation in this area,eventually resulting in a thesis on the Vespers of 1610 and a published collection of essays on the Mass and Vespers.