■Preface
A Couple of Things about AAPPS
Sumio Ishihara......285

■Special Feature "Tracks at Heisei Period"
Purport of Special Feature "Tracks at Heisei Period"......287

Part 1.　Changes in Environment Surrounding Physics at Heisei Period
Transformation of the Science System in Japan
Yasuhiro Iye......288

New Roles of Universities in the Knowledge-Intensive Society
Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami......290

Science- and Physics-Education and JPS in Heisei Period
Toshio Hyodo......292

A Transformation of Academic Journals in Physics in Heisei Period
Mikiko Tanifuji......294

Declining Position of Japan in Progressing World Scientific Environment
Nagayasu Toyoda......296

The Japanese Scientists Who Were Awarded the Nobel Prize between 1989 and 2018
Takuji Okamoto......298

Physics, Physicists and Society
Naoyuki Uchimura......300

Industrial R&D in Transition
Nobuyuki Osakabe......302

Toward Science for Future
Masako Bando......304

■Artificial Intelligence and Physics
Information Processing through Dynamics―Recent Advances in Reservoir Computing
Kohei Nakajima, Takuma Tanaka, and Toshio Aoyagi......306

■Reviews
Emission of Terahertz Electromagnetic Waves by Femtosecond Laser Pulse Irradiation in Solids and Its Application to Materials Science
Noriaki Kida, Tatsuya Miyamoto, and Hiroshi Okamoto......314

■Researches
Investigation of Nuclear Scissors Like Vibration
Toshiyuki Shizuma......325

■Forum......330

■Physics Community News......331

■Obituary......333

■Book Reviews......335

Cover Credit: KEK, Osaka City University, Kyoto Sangyo University,
The International Center for Elementary Particle Physics,
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