The 151st (2025 Autumn) Conference will be held at Kwansei Gakuin University (Nishinomiya-Uegahara Campus) on 25 (Sat) – 26 (Sun) October 2025.  We are now preparing to accept applications for paper sessions and special theme sessions.

Application/submission period for papers are as follows (※tentative).

– Monday 9 June – Friday 4 July: application period
– Late July: notification of acceptance of applications
– Thursday 18 – Thursday 25 September: submission of full papers

Yusuke Kakita (Osaka Metropolitan University), Chair, Autumn Conference Planning Committee
Contact: yusukekakita[at]gmail.com
*Please change [at] to @ when sending.

150th Biannual Conference (2025 Spring) will be held on 17-18th May, at Tokyo Metropolitan University (Minami-Osawa Campus). 

The registration (and lunch, reception registration) site is now open. Please access from here.
The deadline for registration is May 7.

Program for the 150th Conference has been posted (see below).

Last ver._jasoa150th(2025Spring)Conference Program and Abstracts

Newsletter No. 121 (April 4, 2025) is published.

The Schedule and Venue of the next Biannual Conference (2025 Spring) is as follows: 
〇Date: 17-18 May, 2025
〇Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan University (Minami-Osawa Campus)

We are accepting applications for presentation in Paper sessions and Special theme sessions. Deadline is January 24^th (Friday) 17:00. The result of application acceptance will be notified in mid-February.

(1) Application Form for Paper sessions
https://forms.gle/Ld26Z5gp92RpWw3N8

※Contact Information (Suzuki and Matsubara)：jasps.150.free@gmail.com

(2) Application Form for Special theme sessions
https://forms.gle/hXNSKmndJqTDfbb88

※Contact Information (Tamiya and Guo): jasps.150.theme@gmail.com

☞For details on application, access here (Information in Japanese).

The Japan Association for Social Policy Studies (JASPS) has recently published the 14th issue of the JASPS Bulletin, a digital journal published in English.

The Japan Association for Social Policy Studies (JASPS) has recently published the 13th issue of the JASPS Bulletin, a digital journal published in English.

Application Form is as follows:

https://service.gakkai.ne.jp/society-member/auth/apply/JASPS

The application period for participation is from September 9th (Monday) 12 p.m. (noon) to October 8th (Tuesday)12 p.m. Participation fees must be paid by October 10th (Thursday).

The conference program will be sent to members in early September. So we ask the members to confirm your address information and change if needed. Please access the website titled “Change Membership Registration Details” (URL below).
https://jasps.org/update.html

As address data will be sent to the printing office on August 19th., if you need to make any changes, please do so before August 15th.

August 3, 2024
149th Biannual Conference Executive Committee
Makoto Ishii

Date: 21 October, 2024

Venue: Nippon Steel Kyushu Works, Manufacturing Base in Oita area

Application required (deadline: 31th July)

https://forms.gle/zvY7gryhUXXMTc9M7

Date: 19-20 October, 2024

Venue: OitaUniversity (Dannoharu Campus)