8 | December 2021 www.facs.website (such as libraries ; ca. 360). International membership grows steadily, particularly fromChina, Korea, and other Asian countries. The CSJ Office operates by the Board of Directors and the Secretariat: The Board of Directors is the second highest decision-making, management organization, under the CSJ General Assembly, and consists of President, Senior Vice President, four Vice Presidents, Executive Di rector, General Secretar y, 19 Directors, and four Auditors. The CSJ President, serving a two-year term, is elected by online general election by all the regular members; the position alternates for two consecutive terms from academia and the following third term from industry. The current President for fiscal 2020-2022 is Dr. Yoshimitsu Kobayashi (Figure 1), the Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings, and the President-Elect is Professor Hiroaki Suga, the University of Tokyo. Figure 1. CSJ President: Dr. Yoshimitsu Kobayashi, Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Organizationally, the CSJ comprises of a Secretariat (Headquarters), Departments, and Regional Sections. The CSJ Secretariat consists of about 20 staff members, under Executive Director, Secretary General, and three Managers who work in three Sections (General Af fairs; Projects, Meetings, and International Exchange; and Publications and Information) related to the Departments described below; the General Affairs Section also deals with the Society’s finance. The CSJ Headquarters is located in a central academic area (Ochanomizu) of metropolitan Tokyo in the Chemistry Hall, a CSJ-owned building inaugurated in 1991 by members’ contributions and wholly renovated just last year in 2020 (Figure 2). The Departments are CSJ’s functional organizations: General Af fairs, Research Exchange, Publications and Information, Academia-Industry Exchange, and Education and Public Relations). In accordance with their functions, these Departments hold total about 30 Committees, such as Membership, Award Selection, International Exchange, Journal Publication, Research Promotion, etc. In addition to these Depar tments and Committees, since 2018 the CSJ comprises 21 Divisions for virtually all specific fields in chemistry, including analytical, inorganic, organic, macromolecular, and others. In parallel with Divisions are five Topical Groups, self-suppor ting research organizations currently focused on Colloids and Interfacial Chemistry, Chemo-informatics, Biofunctional Chemistry, Biotechnology, and Organic Crystals. Seven Regional Sections cover local CSJ activities geographically extended all over Japan. The Kanto Section (metropolitan Tokyo and its vicinity) is the largest with ca. 50 % of all CSJ membership; the Kinki (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, and vicinity) and the Tokai (centered in Nagoya) Sections are the second and the third largest Sections, respectively. Each Regional Section runs a variety of activities including local membership promotion, regional symposia, and outreach events for young potential chemists (children and school pupils) and the general public in the region. The annual operating budget of CSJ in fiscal 2020 is about one billion Japanese yen (JPY) or nine million US dollars (USD), where the primary revenue comes from the membership fees (regular, student, and company affiliate fees). Activities Meetings. The CSJ holds two annual meetings: the CSJ Spring Annual Meeting in March and the CSJ Chemistry Festa in October. The Spring Meeting (Figure 3), perhaps one of the most important CSJ activities, usually involves ca. 8,000 participants and over 6,000 oral and poster papers presented in general sessions and special symposia, expositions, and Figure 2. The Chemistry Building: The CSJ Headquarters and offices
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