A Japanese French historian hopes to review an excellent book on the French revolution in Japanese. Some graduate students wish to get comments on their manuscripts before submitting them to journals. Editors of scholarly journals in various disciplines are willing to post tables of contents and summaries of their most recent journals. Since Japanese scholars' understanding of computer networks is still at a primitive stage, it is necessary to establish a sort of comprehensive discussion list among Japanese scholars regardless of their disciplines in order to stimulate their academic interests in using computer technology for their research and education. We should try to eliminate the Japanese scholars' mental block regarding computers and the Internet.
Most academic societies hold their annual meetings in the spring and fall in Japan.
They may invite us to their meetings for demonstrations and workshops. If we invite H-NET delegates from the United States every time, we need an enormous amount of funding to organize the workshop. Frankly, it would be impractical. It would cost much less if H-NET used local representatives. This problem leads us to consider H-NET's organizational structure.