This volume contains the proceedings of the Tsukuba International Conference on Representations of Algebras and Related Topics (fifth ICRA), held at the University of Tsukuba, August 13-18, 1990. The conference focused on the rapid development of research on representations of finite-dimensional algebras and group representations. A subset of the fifty-seven lectures are collected here, together with a number of other papers not originally presented at the conference. With contributions by some of the world's leading experts in this area, this book provides a valuable overview of the frontier of research in representations of algebras.