Summary of Activities /

---

○ Annual Conferences

Since establishment an Annual National Conference has been held once a year, and the 23th Annual Conference was scheduled for September, 2006. The unified theme and the host institutions where annual conferences have been held are as follows:

(1) The 13th Annual Conference
The 1996 Conference was held on September 17-19 at Meiji Univ. (Tokyo). The theme of the plenary session was “Management Innovation and the Role of Logistics” with 20 papers presented.

(2) The 14th Annual Conference
The 1997 Conference was held under the unified theme of “Some Problems of Costly Logistics” on September 18-20 at the Univ. of Marketing and Distribution Sciences (Kobe) with 18 papers presented.

(3) The 15th Annual Conference
The 15th Conference was held under the unified theme of “Some Problems on Social Logistics” on September 24-26 at Waseda Univ. (Tokyo) with 22 papers presented.

(4) The 16th Annual Conference
The 16th Conference was held under the unified theme of “Globalization and its Relation to Logistics” on September 27-29 at Tokyo Univ. of Mercantile Marine (Tokyo) with 22 papers presented.

(5) The 17th Annual Conference
The 17th Conference was held on September 12-14 at Asahi Univ. (Gifu) under the unified theme of “Logistics Systems in the Era of Advanced Information Technology” with 28 papers presented.

(6) The 18th Annual Conference
The 18th Conference was held on September 11-13 at Tokyo Keizai Univ. (Tokyo) under the unified theme of “Supply Chain Management and Logistics” with 31 papers presented.

(7) The 19th Annual Conference
The 19th Conference was held on September 5-6 at Sapporo Univ. (Sapporo) under the unified theme of “Trends and Problems of Regional Logistics” with 34 papers presented.

(8) The 20th Annual Conference
The 20th Conference was held on September 4-6 at Osaka Sangyo Univ. (Osaka) under the unified theme of “Asian Logistics Systems in the 21st Century” with 28 papers presented.

(9) The 21st Annual Conference
The 21st Conference was held on September 2-4 at Nakamura Gakuen Univ. (Fukuoka) under the unified theme of “International Logistics in East Asia” with 22 papers presented.

(10) The 22nd Annual Conference
The 22nd Conference was held on September 22-24 at Ryutsu Keizai Univ. (Matsudo) under the unified theme of “Logistics and Environmental Issues” with 48 papers presented.

(11) The 23rd Annual Conference
The 23rd Conference was held on September 21-23 at Hiroshima National College of Maritime Technology(Takehara) under the unified theme of “Activation of Region and Transition of Logistics” with 37 papers presented.

 

○ Publications

(1) Journal of the Japan Logistics Society
The Society decided to issue the Journal of the Japan Logistics Society in 1992, and the first Journal was issued that year. Since then, eight volumes have been published and are roughly summarized in Table 2.

 

 

Table 2. Summary of Journals issued

Note: Academic Paper: Refereed
Academic Report: Non-Refereed
Research Report: Non-Refereed

(2) Annals
The Society has been publishing its Annals once a year since establishment and so far 23 Annals have been issued, as shown in Table 3.

Table 3. Annals by Year

(c)2009 JAPAN LOGISTICS　SOCIETY