Preface -- Chapter 1. Privatization of Public City Gas Utilities in Japan: Reasons, Objectives, and Methods -- Chapter 2. Survival Analysis of Public Gas Utility Firms in the Japanese Urban Gas Industry -- Chapter 3. Concession in infrastructure management: A case of public gas service in Japan -- Chapter 4. A Study on the Background and Issues of Privatization of Public City Gas Utilities in Japan- Implications by comparing several business analysis indicators -- Chapter 5. Privatization of Public Utilities: Results from the UK Experiment -- Chapter 6. Issues in the Development of the Energy Distribution Sector in India: The Cases of the Electricity and Gas Industries -- Chapter 7. New Designs for Regulations on City Gas Pipeline Networks in Japan -- Chapter 8. New Designs for City Gas Businesses in the Era of the Fully Liberalized Gas Retail Markets in Japan -- Index.