ForewordGlobal warming and measures to improve ------- p.1
Tetsuya Sato
Feature ArticlesGlasses and Glass-Ceramics for Biomedical ApplicationsCements Based on Glass and Glass-ceramic for Biomedical Use ------- p.3
Fumiaki Miyaji
Glasses and Glass-ceramics for Cancer Treatments ------- p.8
Masakazu Kawashita
Novel Porous Glasses and Their Application ------- p.16
Kazuki Nakanishi
Development of Drug Delivery System using Bioactive Glass Bone Cement ------- p.21
Makoto Otsuka
Yoshihisa Matsuda
New Glass Research TopicsGlass for Magnetic Disk Substrate ------- p.27
Yoshikane Shinkuma
Lectures for NewcomersEnviromental Prescriptions and Countermeasures for Lead-Containing Glasses ------- p.32
Satoru Ogihara
VisitĦĦtoĦĦGlass Research Institute"Visiting Report at Prof. Sigel, Fiber Optic Materials Research Program, Rutgers University" ------- p.36
Shoichi Kishimoto
Inside Topics inDevelopment of Transparent Glass Ceramics Including Fluoride Crystal : YAGLASS ------- p.39
Masaaki Ohtsuka
Introducing Homepages"Sumita Optical Glass, Inc" ------- p.45
Toshiaki Sumita
Topics of Meetings on GlassReport on the CLEO/IQEC '98 ------- p.47
Nobuhiko Sarukura
Report on Phtomask Japan '98 ------- p.54
Hideaki Mitsui
Report on IODC'98 ------- p.56
Hisayuki Masumoto
Report of Optical Data Storage '98 ------- p.58
Takeshi Maeda
American Ceramic Socity's 100th Annual Meeting & Exposition ------- p.60
Satoshi Hayakawa
Introduction of New BookOptical Glasses and Laser Glasses by Tetsuro Izumitani ------- p.63
Setsuhisa Tanabe