HES people may like to know that their is now a formal JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN ECONOMICS The founding meeting was held in June with 31 attendees and two papers, one on Wesley Mitchell and the other on big business and American economic thought in the late 19th century. The next meeting will be in Tokyo in June 1996. Enquiries should be addressed to the society office at School of Economics Kwansei Gakuin University 1-1-155 Uegahara Nishinomiya Hyogo 662 Japan. Phone 0798-54-6204 Fax 0798-51-0944 The President is Professor Toshihiro Tanaka who has written to me requesting exchange with the HES and historians of American economics. Malcolm Rutherford [log in to unmask]