Letter from Chapter President, April 15, 2005

A New Japan Chapter of AIS, JPAIS, Was Established. This is the first letter from President of the Japan Association for Information Systems, Japan Chapter of AIS (JPAIS), to AIS members in Japan. Apologies for delaying this announcement.

AIS Council Approved A New Japan Chapter, JPAIS
As AIS VP-Communications writes on the AIS website in January, a new Japan Chapter of AIS was approved by the AIS Council Meeting on December 12, 2004 at ICIS 2004 in Washington D.C. This new chapter, the Japan Association for Information Systems, abbreviated as JPAIS (the Internet domain name plus AIS), was proposed by Ryutaro Manabe, a founding member of AIS, with endorsement of more than a dozen of AIS members in Japan who have participated in AIS and AIS affiliated conferences, such as ICIS, PACIS and others. Manabe and Masaaki Hirano made presentations on founding the new chapter to the AIS Council at ICIS 2004$B!%(B The vote was taken after both of them left the meeting room, and the proposal was unanimously approved.
As another Japan Chapter, NAIS, was established in June last year, JPAIS is the second AIS chapter in Japan. John Mooney, VP-Chapters and Affiliated Organizations, said at the Council meeting that as the AIS Bylaws do not restrict one chapter in one country there would be no problem with more than one AIS chapter in Japan. And the Council agreed with this.

Officers and Directors of JPAIS for 2004-2006
The founding officers and directors of JPAIS are as follows:

Officers:

President: Ryutaro MANABE (Bunkyo University)
Secretary: Masaaki HIRANO (Waseda University)
Treasurer: Osamu SATO (Tokyo Keizai University)

Directors:

Jiro KOKURYO (Keio University)
Takeshi KOSAKA (Tokyo University of Science)
Tatsuyuki NEGORO (Waseda University)
Takashi SUGINO (Kokushikan University)

Inaugural Annual General Meeting to be held on June 12
The Inaugural Annual General Meeting will be held at 10:40 a.m. on June 12, 2005, Waseda University at the Spring Meeting of JASMIN. The details of establishing JPAIS will be reported at this meeting, the officers and directors will be introduced. A panel discussion on issues of international activities by IS Researchers in Japan will be made.

Please Write Back to infjpais@shona.bunkyo.ac.jp right now
Every communication from the JPAIS officers to the members will be posted on this JPAIS mailing list : <jpais@shonan.bunkyo.ac.jp>. This message is sent to all of those on the list of AIS members in Japan provided by the AIS office. In fact, your e-mail address which received this message was already registered in the JPAIS mailing list. After reading this message, will you send an email at <infjpais@shonan.bunkyo.ac.jp> to tell whether or not you wish to be a member of JPAIS and to have your email address registered on this mailing list. Although our official communication language is English, you may write to us in either English or Japanese.

Website of JPAIS
The official website of JPAIS will be soon opened. The following documents sent to President of AIS for proposing JPAIS will be posted on this site:
Proposal of establishing JPAIS
Founding officers and directors
Bylaws of JPAIS
Announcement to establish JPAIS posted to the ISWorld List

We, officers of JPAIS, will welcome your opinions on activities of JPAIS. If you wish to discuss with other members, please post your message on the JPAIS mailing list above. Any inquiries or comments to JPAIS officers are welcome at <infjpais@shonan.bunkyo.ac.jp>.

Ryutaro Manabe