Committees of the JSTP

General Affairs Committee

 Chair:

Masahiro TSUTSUMI, Jyoji YAMATE (Financial Executive; Director)

• Coordination with the office or publishing agent
  
• Financial management, submission of budget plan and financial report
  
• Formulation and report of activity plan
  
• Construction, improvement and elimination of the bylaw or agreements
  
• Other coordination

Membership Committee

Kumiko OGAWA, Yoshiro TANI

• The "Membership Committee" is set up under the Board of Directors as a standing organization to take in charge subjects concerning membership. The role of the committee is to examine matters concerning membership in general and to present them to the Board of Directors. The committee also examines the membership qualification for new applicants and councilors and reports the results to the Board of Directors.

International Committee

Yuji OISHI (Director), Tomoyuki SHIRAI (Vice President), Munehiro TERANISHI (Charge in IFSTP-RIC & STP-Peer Review WG; Inspector), Hiroyuki TSUDA (Charge in IFSTP; Honorary member), Dai NAKAE (Charge in IATP), Takanori HARADA (Charge in INHAND-GESC), Yoichi KONISHI (IFSTP Former President; Honorary member; Observer)

• The new International Committee has been formed to deal with the international activities of JSTP. These activities include cooperation with the societies of Toxicologic Pathology in other countries, without compromising the interests of our JSTP members. This cooperation entails communicating our opinions to these organizations, keeping JSTP members informed regarding the activities of the IFSTP and IATP, and discussion and collaboration with IFSTP, IATP, IFSTP-RIC, INHAND-GESC, STP Peer Review Working Group, and US and European Societies of Toxicologic Pathology.

Board Certification Committee

Nondisclosure (9 members)

• The committee manages certifying examination of JSTP, and reexamines the qualification update.
  
• Please see Diplomate of JSTP for details of the certifying examination.
  
• The committee explains the previous year's certifying examination questions on the day before of the annual meeting of the JSTP (free).

Education Committee

Midori YOSHIDA (Executive of Slide Conferences; Director), Toshio IMAI, Kiyokazu OZAKI, Masami SUZUKI (Director), Akiyoshi NISHIKAWA (Director), Satoru TAKAHASHI, Tetsuya TSUKAMOTO, Masahiro TSUTSUMI, Shunji NAKATSUJI, Naoki YOSHIMI (Director)

• The role of this committee is to plan and manage of educational seminars and slide conferences.

Publication Committee

Katsumi IMAIDA, Hijiri IWATA, Keisuke IZUMI (Director), Yuji OISHI (Director), Kumiko OGAWA, Osamu KATSUTA, Hiroshi SATOH, Makoto SHIBUTANI, Kazumoto SHIBUYA, Masami SUZUKI (Director), Kazutoshi TAMURA, Testuya TSUKAMOTO, Masahiro TSUTSUMI, Satoshi FURUKAWA, Katsuhiko YOSHIZAWA (Director), Midori YOSHIDA (Director), Naoki YOSHIMI (Director)

Wijit Banlünara, Paul-Georg Germann, Jong-Koo Kang, Wolfgang Kaufmann, Jin Ren, John Curtis Seely, James Swenberg, Klaus Weber

• The committee publishes the society's official journal, the Journal of Toxicologic Pathology.
  
• Please submit your next papers to our journal.

Communication Committee

 Chair:

 Vice Chair:

Yuji OISHI (Director)

Katsumi IMAIDA

Kiyonori KAI, Hiroshi SATOH, Kaoru TOYOSAWA, Shunji NAKATSUJI, Midori YOSHIDA (Director)

• The role of this committee is to provide useful information to all JSTP members through the JSTP Home Page and JSTP News. The new version of Home Page, including "Members Only" pages and other new functions, is now preparing by this Committee.

Revision Committee of The Textbook edited JSTP

 Vice Chair:

 Members:

Yuji OISHI (Director)

Makoto ASAMOTO, Hijiri IWATA, Takuji TANAKA (Inspector), Munehiro TERANISHI (Inspector), Dai NAKAE

• The new textbook of "Toxicologic Histopathology" edited by JSTP will be newly revised by this committee. All figures of the new textbook will be colored and the volume will be increased 150% than the current edition.