Tomoko Kaneda

<p>A renewed Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language, in order to carry out its mission, has set among its goals an involvement with research topics related to society, and action aimed at resolving social issues. The Society decided to set concrete tasks for society-related research and action in each mid-term plan, inaugurated a joint conference on survey research, and selected three topics for research and of social action respectively.</p><p>To promote sharing of these topics, and understanding of their goals, among the Society members, this article explains why and how the topics were chosen, and how the Society will deal with them in the current plan.</p>