  Elemental abundance measurements have been obtained for a sample of 18 very
metal-poor stars using spectra obtained with the Subaru Telescope High
Dispersion Spectrograph. Seventeen stars, among which 16 are newly analyzed in
the present work, were selected from candidate metal-poor stars identified in
the HK survey of Beers and colleagues. The metallicity range covered by our
sample is -3.1 ~< [Fe/H] ~< -2.4. The abundances of carbon, alpha-elements, and
iron-peak elements determined for these stars confirm the trends found by
previous work. One exception is the large over-abundance of Mg, Al and Sc found
in BS16934--002, a giant with [Fe/H] = -2.8. By combining our new results with
those of previous studies, we investigate the distribution of neutron-capture
elements in very metal-poor stars, focusing on the production of the light
neutron-capture elements (e.g., Sr, Y, and Zr).
