Foreword ------- p.1Yuko Yasunaga
Feature Articles I: Automotive Glass1) Glass for Comfortable Car Cabin ------- p.4
Takashi Muromachi
2) Automotive Glass Concerned Safety of Passengers ------- p.9
Kazuo higuchi
3) Physical Chemistry of Hydrophobic Coating on Glass ------- p.17
Akira Nakajima
Munetoshi Sakai
4) Radio and TV Broadcasting Antenna Integrated in Automotive Glass ------- p.23
Masaru Shiina
5) Introduction of Electrochromic Glazing in Automotive ------- p.29
Hirotaka Okamoto
6) Automotive Functional Glass at a Glance ------- p.33
Feature Articles II: Conformity Assessment System for JIS ------- p.34Masato Kino
New Glass Research TopicsIntroduction of NEDO Frontier Project Reformative Glass-Dissolution Technology for Energy Conservation by Direct Glass-Formation. ------- p.40
Toru Iseda
Nanotechnology Glass Research TopicsHigh-efficient Eu3ˇÜ Photoluminescence of SnO2-SiO2ˇ§Eu3ˇÜ Glass by Nano-Glass Technology ------- p.45
Masayuki Nogami
Tomokatsu Hayakawa
Lectures for NewcomersMagnetic Properties of Glasses ------- p.51
Katsuhisa Tanaka
VisitˇˇtoˇˇGlass Research InstituteGlass-Inspired Design of Hybrid Biomedical Material in Okayama University ------- p.57
Kanji Tsuru
Satoshi Hayakawa
Akiyoshi Osaka
Introduction of New Glass ProductsDevelopment of a new process for manufacturing precision gobs out of new developed low Tg optical glasses for precise molding of aspherical lenses ------- p.63
Rainer Jaschek
Christopher Klein
Cristian Schenk
Klaus Schneider
Freund Jochen
Simone Ritter
Ralf Jedamzik
Topics of Meetings on Glass1) Report on Sol-Gel Workshop '05 at UCLA ------- p.67
Naoko Yamaguchi
2) The 6th Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology ------- p.69
Masafumi Kobune
"3) Report on the 66th Autumn Meeting of the Japanese Society of Applied Physics, 2005" ------- p.72
Eiji Hirano
Introduction of New Book ------- p.75Masato Shibuya
ColumnBulgaria Where any Japanese Feels at Home ------- p.78
Sumiyuki Yoshii