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I was re-elected as president of the Japan Society of Colour Material for fiscal 2018 and 2019 at the board meeting on February 22. Fiscal 2018 will mark my second year as president. Let me ask you for your consistent support.
The Japan Society of Colour Material completed our landmark 90th anniversary successfully with the commemorative event in October last year. I would like to step forward into the 91st year of our founding with a new motivation, setting my eyes on the 95th anniversary as well as the centennial anniversary.
JSCM is made up of business firms, universities, and public research institutes, closely related to color material and coating material, and their staff members. We are an academic organization consisting of 160 supporting members and 1,000 regular members.
This fiscal year, JSCM is administered by Vice President Mr. Ko Yoshida in charge of the headquarters, Kanto Branch Director Mr. Masahiko Asada, Kansai Branch Director Dr. Shigeyuki Yagi, Chubu Branch Director Mr. Eiichi Okazaki, and three auditors: Mr. Koichiro Murata, Dr. Hiroshi Hosaka, and Dr. Toshikatsu Kobayashi. Our editor in chief is Dr. Yoshinori Kushi.
The management is determined to look back on the past records and results and then move forward for the coming two years to make JSCM a society that is truly loved by all members. We will listen to the voices of our members in good faith and encourage discussions based on their voices on various occasions in an effort to make JSCM a closer and more familiar presence to everyone.
By the way, our financial base is far from solid and stable. We think we are faced with the imminent issues of maintaining and increasing our members, energizing the activities of our branches, sectional meetings, and workshops. Currently, our main focus is pigments, paints, and printing inks as well as the pigment dispersion technology and the ink-jet technology. But we think we need to explore new fields toward our 95th anniversary and centennial anniversary. I will take the initiative to push for discussions of these issues at the planning and steering committee and the board of directors as our essential issues.
Now, we are in the middle of the highly networked information society. Therefore, we believe the information transmitted from us will lead to significant social contribution. As a tool to deliver our information, we will upgrade and utilize our homepage with an emphasis on our effort to make JSCM much more familiar to the general public.
As to our keyword of "globalization", we organized the globalization committee in the year before last. We are now considering using this committee aggressively to get study reports from abroad and collaborate with CSI (Coatings Societies International). This way, we will promote the globalization of the field of color material.
Finally, I beg you for your cooperation and support from now on as in the past.
Kazuaki Hashimoto
President, Japan Society of Colour Materials