The new board started at the business meeting on 31st, Janurary, 2004, and the official name of JSD has changed to the Japanese Chapter of the System Dynamics Society. The official address has changed also.

A New Book in Japanese	Dynamic Perspectives for General Policy Studies : Excel System Dynamics by KOBAYASHI, Hidenori Hakuto-shobo in Tokyo,  July 26th in 2002 432pages, CD-Rom included,  Price: 6,000Yen plus Tax
	<Book Description>　Key words :  adjustment and delay, policy sciences, exponential delay, model  　Japanese state dysfunction for these years needs certain improvements in policy making. In order to make them effective scientific policy studies should be required. 　In this context system dynamics and systems thinking will usually be of help both to the technocrats in the government and to the people in the streets. To equip the latter with software and instruct them to use it will result in the reduction of political apathy and will activate the participation in the policy process. Actual policy improvement should actually be carried out only through such social feedback.. This book is to provide them with such software, with explicating the concept of exponential delay, with exposing the step to　modeling, and with disclosing my software itself.  A CD-ROM is also attached.
	<About the Author>  KOBAYASHI, Hidenori is Professor of Chuo University in TOKYO. He is also Chapter President of JSD.

[Agenda and Reports] of the first genenral meeting of JSD held on February 27th (Wed), 2002 at  Ichigaya Campus of Chuo University.

* The ninety second regular meeting was held at Kansai University. This is the second meeting in Kansai, the middle part of Japan  was held on 16th March, 2002. Pictures of the Meeting in Kansai 

The Lemming Dilemma: Living with Purpose, Leading with Vision by David Hutchens, Its Japanese translation was published in July, 2001 by Ito, Takeshi. It joined the week's top sllers in Tokyo,

Systems Thinking Basics from Concepts to Causal Loopsby Virginia Anderson and Lauren Johnson. Its Japanese translation was published in October, 2001 by Ito, Takeshi.

So, JSD home page address has changed to the new address, http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jsd/

                  ＴＥＬ：03-5368-3662　　　ＦＡＸ：03-5368-3515
                  E-mail Address: Chapter Secretary MATSUSITA,Motonori jsds1990@hotmail.com

President of UK Chapter   Geoff Coyle,    President Elect Eric Wolstenholme

Date      1st-2nd February, 2001
Place      The White Hart Hotel in the lovely spa town of Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Contact  Dr David Exelby, Chapter secretary. Email: dexelby@vanguard-bm.com

President of UK Chapter   Geoff Coyle

Date       February 3/4, 2000
Place      The White Hart Hotel in the lovely spa town of Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Contact  Dr David Exelby, Chapter secretary. Email: david.exelby@hvrcsl.co.uk
　

Doahoon Kim, et al published System Dynamics in Korean in June, 1999.

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The Second System Dynamics Textbook with a CD (Japanese) in Japan ! written by Michiharu Okano, Atusi Fukuda, Yoshinori Fukunaga and Osamu Yoshie   Rikoukei System no Modeling Gakushu  - STELLA niyoru System Shiko - (LearningScience & EngineeringSystems by Modeling)  A4,  2400yen,  Makino Bookstore         Today, it has been eargently  insisted to introduce Systems Thinking to high school education and university education.         This book is the textbook with a CD-Rom, which is written based on many thoughtful experiences of four authors using STELLA for systems thinking education.         These authors, whose major areas are mechanical engineering, traffic engineering, physics and information engineering respectively, show many simple examples and explain important characteristics of Systems Thinking in engineering.

The Fisrt System Dynamics Textbook with a CD (Japanese) in Japan! edited by Michiya Morita   Keiei System no Modeling Gakushu  - STELLA niyoru System Shiko - (Learning Management Systems by Modeling)  Published in September 1 , 1997  2,800yen,  Makino Bookstore  　This is the first SD textbook in Japan that has a CD of many STELLA models. 　A demo version of STELLA is attached to this CD also so that a stuedent may learn many basic concepts of economic systems  and management systems by running these system models in the CD. Learning by running leards to learning by modeling!

Joint Session with JASAG: The Joint Session with Japan Association of Simulation Gaming (JASAG) was held at the 9th Annual Conferece of JASAG on Octber 4, 1997 at Komaba Campus, Tokyo University.