Foreword ------- p.1Yozo Izuhara
Feature Articles National R & D Project Nano-glass1) Start of the National R & D Project Nano-Glass ------- p.3
Katsuyuki Uesugi
2) Nano-glass Project Plan ------- p.7
Kazuyuki Hirao
3) Glasses containing rare-earth ions and Nano-technology ------- p.15
Kazuyuki Hirao
Jianrong Qiu
4) Glass Structure-Control Technology of Atomic or Molecular Level ------- p.22
Setsuro Ito
5) Research and Development on Control of Nano-Particle Structure in Glasses ------- p.28
Shigeru Yamamoto
6) Hyper-Organized Structure Control and its Applications ------- p.34
Takeshi Naito
Hiroki Yamamoto
Tatsumi Hirano
Akira Kato
New Glass Research TopicsSome Recent Developments on Rare-Earth-Doped Glasses ------- p.43
Norihiko Kamata
Lectures for NewcomersCleaning for LCD glass ------- p.48
Satoru Honda
VisitĦĦtoĦĦGlass Research Institute"Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey" ------- p.54
Kohei Soga
Introduction of New Glass ProductsNew Optical glasses for precision molding ------- p.59
Koji Nakahata
Topics of Meetings on Glass"1) Report on Glass & Optical Materials Division Meeting of the Ceramic Society of America, 2000" ------- p.62
Takashi Aitoku
2) Report of 41st Symposium on Glass and Photonics Materials ------- p.64
Masaaki Miyata
3) Report on the 13th Fall Meeting of the Ceramic Society of Japan ------- p.66
Kohei Fukumi
4) Report of Seminar on New Glass ------- p.68
Minako Azumi
5) Report on the First Asian Meeting on Electroceramics & the 20th Electronics Division Meeting ------- p.70
Masao Kondo
6) Report on ECOC2000 ------- p.73
Masaaki Hirano
Introduction of New Book ------- p.75Hisatoshi Nagao
ColumnBetween Object and Information ------- p.77
Shin-ichi Todoroki