Announcement

The 3rd Announcement of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Japan Wood Research Society in Matsuyama

Date: March 13–15, 2014

Venue: Faculty of Education Main Bldg. Ehime University (Oral Presentation, Exhibition) and Himegin Hall Matsuyama city (Poster Presentation, Prize and Award Ceremony, Symposium), Matsuyama, Japan

The Japan Wood Research Society (JWRS) takes great pleasure in inviting all members of our society with an interest in the science and technology of wood to attend the 64th Annual Meeting of the JWRS that will be held from March 13 to 15, 2014, Matsuyama city, Ehime, Japan.

The society members may make oral and poster presentations during the meeting. The symposium and the exhibition of the related companies will also be held. For more information please visit the following web site: http://www.jwrs.org/wood2014/

For the Organizing Committee: Prof. Dr. Sanro Tachibana (Chief), Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University.

Prof. Dr. Masatoshi Sugimori (Executive Chief), Faculty of Agriculture,

Ehime University.

Associate Prof. Dr. Kazutaka Itoh (Secretary), Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University.

E-mail: wood2014@jwrs.org

Mokuzai Gakkaishi (Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society)

Mokuzai Gakkaishi is another official journal of the Japan Wood Research Society. This journal publishes original articles, notes, review articles, and announcements from the Society in Japanese but with English abstracts, tables, and figure captions for original reports. Contents of the latest issue of Mokuzai Gakkaishi are as follows:

Volume 59 Number 6 2013

Category I

K. Toba, T. Nakai, H. Yamamoto, M. Yoshida, N. Nishio

Effects of repeated wet-and-dry treatments on water and gas adsorption performance of wood

M. Ueda, M. Nakamura, A. Kitamori, K. Komatsu

Minute color measurement of sugi timber (Cryptomeria japonica) dried by five conditions I: Minute color measurement of heartwood, sapwood, earlywood, and latewood

M. Nakamura, M. Ueda

Minute color measurement of sugi timber (Cryptomeria japonica) dried by five conditions II: Comparison of changes in surface colors based on three color attributes

K. Saito, T. Mitsutani, Y. Matsushita, T. Imai, K. Fukushima

Distribution of inorganic elements in heartwood and sapwood of hinoki cypress detected by TOF-SIMS

Category II

H. Korai, K. Hattori

Effects of surface coating on durability improvement of particleboard subjected to outdoor exposure

D. Aoki, K. Kuroda, Y. Hanaya, K. Saito, R. Takama, Y. Matsushita, K. Fukushima

Development of the cryo-TOF-SIMS/SEM system and application for topochemical analysis of plant biomolecules

Category III

H. Ito, M. Okamoto, R. Makise, A. Isa, E. Fujinaka, Y. Kojima, S. Suzuki, T. Endo, Y. Teramoto

Surface treatment of micro-fibrillated cellulose using calcium silicate hydrate

I. Higuchi

The stress and strength evaluations of single-lap adhesive joints of bamboo plate adherends under static bending moments

T. Hirose, M. Kushibiki

Properties of deodorizing filters with activated carbon from pruned apple branches