What is “JSAP”?
The activities of JSAP (The Japan Society ofApplied Physics) center on the field of appliedphysics. In applied physics, the Society plays akey dual role by acting as an academic interface
between science and engineering and stimulatingsocial interaction between academia and industry.
JSAP has focused most of its energies to dateon organising technical meetings and conferences
as a means of encouraging mutually beneficial
collaboration between researchers working inapplied physics.

Update(1) The 2004 Spring Meeting was held at Tokyo
University of Technology with 9,459 registeredparticipants and 4,801 presentations. Abstracts forthe presentations were only accepted using a new
on-line submission system via the JSAP website.
(2) The JSAP 2004 Fall Meeting will be held at Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai City, September 1-4.
(3) JJAP Part 1 now accepts online submissionof manuscripts via the JJAP web page: http://jjap.ipap.jp/online/. Further, from October 2003,
IPAP has started publishing an online version ofthe Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, well inadvance of the printed version.
(4) ‘The JJAP Editorial Contribution Award’ wasestablished to recognize distinguished contributions as an editor and/or a reviewer of articles for
the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics.
(5) The JSAP sponsored 15 international conferences in 2003 including the ICNS, VLSI, AMLCD,SSDM, IR&MM Waves, MNC, MOC, and CREO/PR.

Publications

Outstanding achievement in the field of applied physics is recognized by the presentationof a ’JSAP Outstanding Achievement Award’ toindividuals who have greatly contributed to theprogress of applied physics.
Awards are also presented to the authors ofpapers of excellence published in the two main
JSAP periodicals, the membership journal (OyoButuri) and the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics (JJAP). There are three awards:• Award for the best original paper• Award for the most promising young scientist• Award for the best review paper

Academic Meetings

Benefits of JSAP Membership

The JSAP holds two national conventions
annually, in which a third of the JSAP membership generally participates. The Spring meeting(held in the Tokyo area) usually involves about
8,000 participants and the Autumn meeting (heldin other parts of Japan, such as Nagoya) attracts
approximately 6,000 participants. The two conventions are held over a period of four days during which about 4,000 papers are presented inregular sessions and symposia.

Membership
The total membership of JSAP was 22,473 asof May 2004, with members specialising in physics, applied physics, electronics, chemistry, communications, materials science, metallurgy, andmechanical engineering.
About two-thirds of the members of JSAP
are recruited from industry and one third ofmembers are based mainly in academic institutions and government laboratories (Fig. 1).

StudentsMembership(May 2004)

Industry22,473UniversityFig. 12International Conferences
JSAP sponsored more than 15 international
conferences in the fields of applied physics andrelated subjects in 2003. In that year, the list ofmajor international conferences held under thesponsorship of, or in cooperation with, JSAP included Nitride Semiconductors, VLSI Technology,
Modulated Semiconductor Structures, Microprocesses and Nanotechnology, Solid State Devicesand Materials, and Atomically Controlled Surfaces, Interfaces and Nanostructures.

JSAP Awards• Free copy of the monthly publication Oyo
Buturi• Discount on subscriptions to JJAP Part 1 andJJAP Part 2• Eligibility to present papers at JSAP meetings• Discount on JSAP-sponsored conference fees
• Discount on books and conference proceedings published by JSAP
• Access to on-line archive of back numbers ofJSAP periodicals• Participation in meetings organised by societies with formal reciprocal agreements with
JSAP (APS, EPS. IEEE/EDS, IEEE/LEOS, IOP,KPS, OSA) at mutual membership rates

How do you join JSAP?
Eligibility for Membership
An individual applying for regular membership should have an interest in applied physics.
An applicant for student membership must be afull-time undergraduate or postgraduate student
actively involved in research related to appliedphysics.

Divisional Activities

AcademicSocieties
Government
ResearchInstitutes• Plasma Electronics• Radiation Science• Silicon Technology• Solid State Physics and Applications• Superconductors• Thin Film and Surface Physics

JSAP publishes the monthly journal Oyo Buturi, a Japanese-language membership journal
containing review articles. The JSAP also publishes a separate two-part periodical in English, theJapanese Journal of Applied Physics (JJAP), wherePart 1 is published monthly and Part 2 bimonthly.
Part 1 is dedicated to regular papers, short notes
and review papers and Part 2 to letters. Furthermore, submissions judged to have a large impact factor and as requiring urgent publication,
are processed more rapidly and published in theExpress Letters section of Part 2. Approximately,
3,000 copies each of JJAP Part 1 and JJAP Part 2
were printed and distributed in 2000, and morethan 600 copies were despatched to subscribers
in 50 countries.
In addition to the above periodicals, JSAP
publishes books and the proceedings of various
international conferences sponsored or co-sponsored by JSAP in fields related to applied physics.
Members receive a discount on these publications.

JSAP International No.10 (July 2004)

JSAP has various divisions that take responsibility for particular subject areas. Each division
sponsors activities in its own field of specialisationthat include seminars, tutorial meetings, and thepublication of newsletters. The divisions that exist
currently are• Education in Applied Physics• Materials Science and Crystal Technology• Optics• Organic Molecular Electronics and Bioelectronics

Membership fees
The admission fee at registration is 2,000
Yen for a regular member or 1,000 Yen for a
student member; and the basic annual subscription fee is 10,000 Yen (plus overseas postage) for
regular members or 6,000 Yen (plus overseaspostage) for a student member. Members wishing to subscribe to the JJAP are requested to
pay 12,000 Yen (plus overseas surface-postagemail) in advance in addition to the basic annual
subscription fee.