Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University
I am pleased to announce that I have been appointed President and Representative Director of the Combustion Society of Japan (CSJ), succeeding former President Kaoru Maruta. I am deeply honored and humbled to assume the important responsibility of President of this historic society. I would like to offer a few words upon assuming this position.
I want to express my sincere appreciation for the understanding and cooperation of our members in the activities of the Society. As you are aware, the administration of the Society and the publication of the Journal have been delayed since last year, and we apologize for any inconvenience and trouble this has caused you. In order to solve this problem, we have been working on the relocation of the secretariat. Thanks to your cooperation, we were able to amend the Articles of Incorporation at the 2025 Annual General Meeting. It will be some time before the secretariat functions are back to normal, but we ask for your continued understanding. Together with Dr. Teruyuki Okazaki (MHI Soltec), Vice President, Prof. Mamoru Tanahashi (Institute of Science Tokyo), Vice President, and Prof. Shuhei Takahashi (Gifu Univ.), Executive Director, we will continue to serve our members by promoting the activities of the Society, such as publication of the Journal, website and database construction, annual combustion symposium, combustion engineering courses, surveys, summer seminar, awards, research committees, creation of young and female communities, and so on, mainly by the Board of Directors and committees.
Combustion science has played an indispensable role in solving the most pressing issues facing humanity, such as energy and the environment. CSJ has a long history and tradition, starting with the Japan Combustion Research Association established in 1955, which was renamed the Combustion Society of Japan in 1991 and became a general incorporated association in 2010, and has promoted a wide range of combustion-related research, from basic to applied, and has disseminated the results to society. Recently, expectations for the society have been increasing in terms of the development of innovative combustion technologies to realize carbon neutrality, to deal with various carbon-neutral fuels such as hydrogen, ammonia, e-fuel, and SAF, to contribute to next-generation energy systems, and to contribute to fire safety. Let us pursue the possibilities of combustion science toward the realization of a sustainable society through combustion technology by deepening the scientific exploration of combustion science, applying it to solving technical problems through industry-academia collaboration, and integrating it with new and different fields, such as AI.
One of the major roles of the society is to provide a forum for exchange. The annual Combustion Symposium held in Japan is the largest forum for exchange, and it also includes a workshop for young researchers, a reception, and a luncheon for women. The International Symposium on Combustion, held every other year, is the largest venue for international exchange. The International Symposium on Combustion is not only a forum for academic exchange, but is also characterized by the fact that submitted papers are reviewed and published in the international journal Proceedings of the Combustion Institute (PROCI). From 2025, PROCI will review papers submitted to the Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion (ASPACC), Mediterranean Combustion Conferences (MCS), U.S. National Combustion Meetings (USNCM), and European Combustion Meetings (ECM). The Combustion Society of Japan is also one of the sections of The Combustion Institute (CI), the Japan Section, so that the members of CSJ are also members of CI. As a result, members of CSJ can participate in symposia sponsored by CI as members and have the right to vote for the board of directors of CI. Thus, CSJ is one of the rare societies that are directly connected to international societies, and we hope that all of our members will take advantage of this advantageous environment and actively develop their activities. In order to support the international activities of young members in particular, the society has begun supporting the dispatch of young members to conferences in Korea and Taiwan.
The 41st International Symposium on Combustion will be held in Kyoto in 2026. This will be the third International Symposium on Combustion to be held in Japan, following Tokyo in 1974 and Sapporo in 2002. Preparations for the symposium are underway with Prof. Kaoru Maruta (Tohoku Univ.) as chairperson and Prof. Hiroshi Kawanabe (Kyoto Univ.) and Prof. Jun Hayashi (Kyoto Univ.) as local organizing committee members. Prof. Osamu Fujita (Hokkaido Univ.) is the program co-chair. Please join us for many presentations, high-quality papers, and heated discussions.
Finally, I would like to ask for the active participation of our members in the Society’s activities and your frank opinions for the future.
I am pleased to announce that I have been appointed President and Representative Director of the Combustion Society of Japan (CSJ), succeeding former President Kaoru Maruta. I am deeply honored and humbled to assume the important responsibility of President of this historic society. I would like to offer a few words upon assuming this position.
I want to express my sincere appreciation for the understanding and cooperation of our members in the activities of the Society. As you are aware, the administration of the Society and the publication of the Journal have been delayed since last year, and we apologize for any inconvenience and trouble this has caused you. In order to solve this problem, we have been working on the relocation of the secretariat. Thanks to your cooperation, we were able to amend the Articles of Incorporation at the 2025 Annual General Meeting. It will be some time before the secretariat functions are back to normal, but we ask for your continued understanding. Together with Dr. Teruyuki Okazaki (MHI Soltec), Vice President, Prof. Mamoru Tanahashi (Institute of Science Tokyo), Vice President, and Prof. Shuhei Takahashi (Gifu Univ.), Executive Director, we will continue to serve our members by promoting the activities of the Society, such as publication of the Journal, website and database construction, annual combustion symposium, combustion engineering courses, surveys, summer seminar, awards, research committees, creation of young and female communities, and so on, mainly by the Board of Directors and committees.
Combustion science has played an indispensable role in solving the most pressing issues facing humanity, such as energy and the environment. CSJ has a long history and tradition, starting with the Japan Combustion Research Association established in 1955, which was renamed the Combustion Society of Japan in 1991 and became a general incorporated association in 2010, and has promoted a wide range of combustion-related research, from basic to applied, and has disseminated the results to society. Recently, expectations for the society have been increasing in terms of the development of innovative combustion technologies to realize carbon neutrality, to deal with various carbon-neutral fuels such as hydrogen, ammonia, e-fuel, and SAF, to contribute to next-generation energy systems, and to contribute to fire safety. Let us pursue the possibilities of combustion science toward the realization of a sustainable society through combustion technology by deepening the scientific exploration of combustion science, applying it to solving technical problems through industry-academia collaboration, and integrating it with new and different fields, such as AI.
One of the major roles of the society is to provide a forum for exchange. The annual Combustion Symposium held in Japan is the largest forum for exchange, and it also includes a workshop for young researchers, a reception, and a luncheon for women. The International Symposium on Combustion, held every other year, is the largest venue for international exchange. The International Symposium on Combustion is not only a forum for academic exchange, but is also characterized by the fact that submitted papers are reviewed and published in the international journal Proceedings of the Combustion Institute (PROCI). From 2025, PROCI will review papers submitted to the Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion (ASPACC), Mediterranean Combustion Conferences (MCS), U.S. National Combustion Meetings (USNCM), and European Combustion Meetings (ECM). The Combustion Society of Japan is also one of the sections of The Combustion Institute (CI), the Japan Section, so that the members of CSJ are also members of CI. As a result, members of CSJ can participate in symposia sponsored by CI as members and have the right to vote for the board of directors of CI. Thus, CSJ is one of the rare societies that are directly connected to international societies, and we hope that all of our members will take advantage of this advantageous environment and actively develop their activities. In order to support the international activities of young members in particular, the society has begun supporting the dispatch of young members to conferences in Korea and Taiwan.
The 41st International Symposium on Combustion will be held in Kyoto in 2026. This will be the third International Symposium on Combustion to be held in Japan, following Tokyo in 1974 and Sapporo in 2002. Preparations for the symposium are underway with Prof. Kaoru Maruta (Tohoku Univ.) as chairperson and Prof. Hiroshi Kawanabe (Kyoto Univ.) and Prof. Jun Hayashi (Kyoto Univ.) as local organizing committee members. Prof. Osamu Fujita (Hokkaido Univ.) is the program co-chair. Please join us for many presentations, high-quality papers, and heated discussions.
Finally, I would like to ask for the active participation of our members in the Society’s activities and your frank opinions for the future.