Invitees, numbered 348 in total and included representatives from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, National/Municipal/Private Universities, Inter-University Research Institutes, Academic Societies, Associations, and other institutions concerned, as well as former members of NACSIS Staff, etc.

Dr. Hiroshi INOSE, Director General, made an address expressing genuine appreciation for the constant support and cooperation of all of the institutions concerned, and discussed how NACSIS is currently taking part in the development of a high-performance communication network for scientific research. He added also that NACSIS would go a step further to realize an integrated service including networking as infrastructure, as well as content, and applications by making use of the opportunity presented by its 10th Anniversary.

The congratulatory address of Dr. Mikio OKUDA, the Minister of Education, Science, Sports and Culture was read by Mr. Hideki HAYASHIDA, Director of the Science and International Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Education, in which Dr. OKUDA announced that the Ministry would consistently follow its policy of network enhancement, support for database production, etc., so that the Science Information System of Japan may grow further.

Dr. Shin'ichiro OGATA, Librarian of the National Diet Library, one of the invited celebrities, delivered his address in which he expressed the conviction that NDL's cooperation with NACSIS has greatly contributed to the development of libraries and science information services in Japan. He also added that the development of the electronic library system of NDL being planned in the Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library (provisional name) would make much of the progress of mutual cooperation made by the two institutions.

Professor Dr. Hiroyuki YOSHIKAWA, President of University of Tokyo, addressed the issue of information storage and transmission to the next generation as the most critical problem which mankind is now confronted with, expressed his expectations regarding the dual functions of NACSIS in R&D and information services by saying that the issue of storage and transmission of scientific information would be comparable subject of importance with its production by researchers like himself.

Dr. Komei SASAKI, President of the National Museum of Ethnology, gave a speech of support for NACSIS, as a fellow of the National Inter-University Research Institutes, in which he mentioned that development of telecommunication technology among many remarkable sci-tech attainments of the Century is the most significant since it enabled mass storage and selective procurement of information on a global scale, and NACSIS, by taking full advantage of the technology, has constructed the largest science network over the last 10 years for the sake of universities and research institutes of Japan. He said he would ask the leaders of government and industry to support NACSIS to challenge the new frontier of preparing for the era of international research communication.

A lecture meeting, also commemorating the 10th anniversary, was held immediately preceding the ceremony. The first speaker, Dr. Takamitsu SAWA, director, the Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University, gave a speech on "Political and Economic System in the Twenty-first Century". Dr. Sawa discussed how Japan and the rest of the Asian countries should deal with the pressing political and economic problems caused as a consequence of the dramatic changes in the political and economic environment surrounding them in a global scale. He pointed out the importance of the role to be played by the information and communications sectors when he looked at the issues from his own expertise of economics, and advocated the policies which Japan should employ toward the opening of the twenty-first century.

Dr. Toshiharu AOKI, the second speaker, Executive Vice President, Senior Executive Manager, the Research and Development Headquarters, the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, spoke on "the Future of Multimedia Network". He explained how networks in Japan will grow in the future, and the qualitative changes in the spread of multimedia technology along with the quantitative growth of information and communications. He captured generation multimedia networks of Japan by showing the data computing linked directly on the screen on the podium.

Presentations of these two speakers will be published in full in the forthcoming NACSIS Bulletin No. 9.

At the banquet, Dr. Isao AMAGI, Director General of the Institute for Higher Education, and Dr. Moritaka NAKAMURA, President of the Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST) gave their congratulatory speeches. After that, celebrities on the dais, in happi coats, opened large sake casks. Dr. Kimio ONO, a professor emeritus of NACSIS, proposed a toast to the long-awaited Anniversary.

NACSIS prepared some commemorative publications which were handed out to all attendants as a memento.