 | Monthly Meeting. We have two kinds of monthly meeting ; Monthly Research Meeting and National Model Meeting. Meeting is held Saturday afternoon from 13:30 to 17:00 at Tokei Kenkyukai, Shimbashi Tokyo. Attendance averaged 15 persons.
[Monthly Research Meeting]
 | The 63rd "Report about the 15th ISDC in Turkey - Systems Approach to Learning and Education into the 21th Century." Saburo Kameyama (Chuo University), Tomohumi Sumita ( The University of Electronic-Communication), Hironori Kurono (Kyushu International University). August 30th (Sat), 1997. From 13:30 to 17:00.
 | The 64th "Report about the Joint Session with JASAG - Social Systems and Modeling Education." Saburo Kameyama (Chuo University). October 18th (Sat), 1997. From 13:30 to 17:00.
 | The 65th "A New Simulation Environment using Internet for a SD Model." Minoru Mukuta (Nippon Institute of Technology). November 15th (Sat), 1997. From 13:30 to 17:00.
 | The 66th "Cocaine Eradication and SD Models - about the papers of J.B.Homer, R.G.Coyle, M.D.Alexander."Toru Suetake (Tomatu Auditing Corporation). December 20th (Sat), 1997. From 13:30 to 16:00.
 | The 67th "A Viewpoint of Dynamic Systems - Simple System and Complex System." Kei Takeuchi (Meijigakuin University). January 17th(Sat), 1998. From 13:30 to 16:00.
 | The 68th "OR and SD - My OR Life." Toshiro Shimada (Meiji University). March 28th (Sat), 1998. From 13:30 to 16:00.
 | The 69th "System Dynamics Tool - Powersim." Norihiro Matumoto (Japan S.I. Laboratory Co. Ltd.). May 16th (Sat), 1998. From 13:30 to 17:00.
 | The 70th "Practices of Engineering Education using SD." Atsushi Fukuda (Nippon University.). June 20th (Sat), 1998. From 13:30 to 17:00.
 | The 71st "Innovation Diffusion Theory and SD." Toshio Mitsufuji (Aichi Gakusen University.). July 18th (Sat), 1998. From 13:30 to 17:00.
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 | [National Model Meeting]
 | The 8th "Some Problems of a Local Government." Hiroshi Kanzaki (The Workers' Training Institute of Chiba-City). Feb 21st (Sat), 1998. From 13:30 to 17:00.
 | The 9th "An Achievement of an Equilibrated Capital Location by
Regionally Proportional Distribution of Investment." Hidenori Kobayashi (Chuo University). April 18th (Sat), 1998. From 13:30 to 17:00.
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 | Research Projects for Special Problems
JSD authorized the following research projects starting this year:
 | Theoretical Approach to SD (Shogo Sakakura)
 | Research on Financial Systems (Tomofumi Sumita)
 | Social Security (Takahiro Kojima)
 | Environmental Problems (Yoshio Hanzawa)
 | SD National Model (Saburo Kameyama)
 | Development of SD Course Wares (Hidenori Kobayashi)
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 | Issue of JSD Journal (System Dynamics) Volume 2 (now in printing).
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