＊Forum*　Management Forum For the New Century in the following was successfully held.

Forum Theme: "Business Mode Innovation for Executives" January 16(Tue), 2001. From 10.00 to 17:00, at Ichigaya Campus of Chuo University in Tokyo. Held by The Japanese Chapter of the International System Dynamics Society and Research and Development Initiative of Chuo University  Sponsors: The Japan Society for Management Information and The Japan Society for Production Control

Program Outline 1000-1010  Conference Opening  1010-1145  MORITA Michiya (Gakushuin University): Toward a Renaissance of the Manufacturing Industry in Japan by a Normative Approach  1145-1255  Lunch  1300-1400  FUKUZAWA Kenji (KPMG Consulting Co. Ltd): The Balanced Scorecard as a tool for Strategic Planning, Achievement Evaluation and Policy Correction  1405-1520  MATSUMOTO Norihiro (Research and Development Initiative, Chuo University): A Basic Architecture of a Business Model to Realize Business Strategy  1520-1530  Break  1530-1700  DIALOG : A Conversion of Management and Information Systems                by  KOBAYASHI Hidenori (Chuo University),  IIJIMA Junichi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Forum Report  According to JSD Secretary Matushita, most of seventy-five attendants did not leave during the forum and joined the discussion aggressively with Professor Kobayashi, JSD Chapter President and Professor Iijima at the latter half of the Dialog session. Seventy-six percents of the attendants were office workers and the rest were professors. Sixty-one percents of all evaluated the ideas shown at the presentations and the dialog session applicable to their problems.

*Monthly Research Meeting*

The 84th	"Some Insights of System Dynamics for Public Policy Science in the Area of Public Health" OHGA, Hideshi (Foundations in Nursing Laboratory, Nagano Nursing College) July 22th (Wed), 2000. From 13:30 to 16:30, at  Ichigaya Campus of Chuo University
The 85th	The Tenth Anniversary of the Japanese Chapter was celebrated at this regular meeting. "In Search of Linkage Management" MORITA, Michiya (Gakushuin University) October 21st (Sat) ,From 13:30 to 16:00,2000 at  Ichigaya Campus of Chuo University After the regular meeting, the Social Meeting was held to celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of the Japanese Chapter of the International System Dynamics Society at room #2617, Ichigaya Campus of Chuo University.
The 86th	1 "Characteristics of General Policy Studies Using SD"                      KOBAYASHI, Hidenori (Chuo University) 2 "An Application of a SD model to General Planning"                      KANETA, Toshiyuki (Nagoya Institute of Technology) November 18st (Sat), 2000. From 13:30 to 17:00,  at  Nagoya Institute of Technology

*National Model Meeting*

The 21st	"Reports about SD 2000 in Bergen"  Participants ｉｎ SD2000, Ｂｅｒｇｅｎ  From 13:30 to 15:30, September 16th(Sat), 2000 at Ichigaya Campus of Chuo University
The 22nd	"The Balanced Scorecard as a tool for Strategic Planning" ITO, Takeshi (Network Dynamic Consulting Co. Ltd.) From 13:30 to 15:30, December 16th (Sat), 2000 at Ichigaya Campus of Chuo University
The 23rd	"Gaming Simulation for Creating a Business Model"  SHIRAI, Hiroaki (Fujitsu Information & Communication Systems Co. Ltd.)  February 24th (Sat), 2001. From 13:15 to 15:45, at Ichigaya Campus of Chuo University

*Beer Game Kit was uploaded to the JSD web*
The Beer Game Kit in Japanese was uploaded to the JSD web site at the end of the last millennium. Related papers were also uploaded.
It had the very long story to reach to this upload. We appreciate Julia Pugh, John Morecroft, John Sterman and Nan Lux. very much.

*Chapater Secretary and Chapter Secretariat were changed*
Chapter Secretary was changed to MATSUSHITA, motonori, a staff of Research and Development Initiative, Chuo University.
Although the official address is unchanged, the Chapter Secretariat virtually moved to the following from February 12th, 2001. At this place many meetings of JSD have been held since last spring.