Records Management Society of Japan

President: Prof. Hisamichi Yamazaki (Faculty of Letters, Chuo University)

Last updated: June 30, 2009
Japanese site is HERE.

About Us

Records Management Society of Japan, founded in March 1989, is an independent, not-for profit, academic body for promoting research on records management issues in Japan. As of June 2009, the individual members of the society are around 250, while the organizational members and the sponsors are 12.
Members of the society include: records management specialists in corporations and organizations, staff of records management products and services companies, archivists, and researchers of records management studies, archival science and library and information science.

Membership

Membership categories and fees are:

Individual Member: \7,000 per year
Student Member: \3,000 per year
Organizational Member: \15,000 per year
Sponsor: \50,000 per year
Fellow

Membership benefits are:

A free copy of Records Management (journal) and the Newsletter of the society
Title to join and make presentations at conferences and to submit papers for Records Management
Title to join conferences, meetings, and seminars of the society
Title to join discussion among the society members

Activities of the Society

Conference: once a year, around in May or June
Publication of the journal (see below), the newsletter, and others
Regular meetings: 5-6 times a year in Tokyo and Kanto area, and in Kansai area
Biennially award to the best research paper in the journal
Biennially award to the people who contributed to the development of records management in Japan
Research grant to individual researchers concerning records management

In June 2006, the RMSJ, in cooperation with the Japan Society of Archival Science, compiled Introduction to Archival Science: Memory and Records into the Future (An anthology of articles translated into Japanese. ISBN: 978-4816919813). This is published by Nichigai Associates, Inc.

Records Management: The Journal of the Society

Records Management, inaugurated in 1989, is the peer-reviewed journal of the Records Management Society of Japan. It is published twice a year in Japanese. The latest issue, No. 57, was published in May 2009. The journal includes: research articles, research notes, articles of the regular meetings and seminars, research essays, book reviews, and others related to records management issues.
The majority of the published issues (from No. 34 in 1997), except the most recent ones, are made available to the public FOR FREE via CiNii (a database of academic articles, powered by the National Institute of Informatics Japan). However, the issues published within one year are not available, and the issues published 1-5 years ago are available for a fee via CiNii.
The list of the issues of Records Management available via CiNii is available at:

http://ci.nii.ac.jp/vol_issue/nels/AN10483407_en.html

We accept papers from registered members all year around. For more information about the journal, please contact:

(Prof.) Toshiki Ara
Editor-in-chief, Records Management (Fm-solution)
Email: Toshiki_Ara[atmark]fm-solution.co.jp

Contact Address

(Ms.) Chiyoko Ogawa
Vice President, Records Management Society of Japan (Documenting Japan International)
Email: djiarchiv[atmark]ybb.ne.jp