JOURNAL OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNOLOGY OF PLASTICITY vol.45 no.521 June 2004 ---CONTENTS--- Essay Role of the Society on the Cooperation between Industry and Academia in Research for Practical Application Takashi HIRAO 1(389) Lectures Pipes for Tube Hydroforming Koji Suzuki and Hideo Mizukoshi 1(389) Reports Activities of JSTP in 2003 Tamotsu NAKAMURA 8(396) JSTP Awards Winners for 2004 Awarding Committee 10(398) 39th Ordinary General Assembly of JSTP The 39th Board of Directors 24(412) Papers Distribution of Relative Densities in Alumina Parts Formed buy Hot Pressing and Direct-Current Sintering Shigemi KIHARA and Hideki FUJISAWA 77(465) Development of a Friction Sensor and Measurement in Aluminum Hot Extrusion Takeshi YONEYAMA and Masaya TAKAHASHI 82(470) A Proposal for a Combined Deep Drawing Method for the Improvement of Material Flow and Strength Takayuki MURANAKA,Yoshihiro GOTO,Norio ITO,Masato OKADA and Ken-ich SAKAGUCHI 87(475) Copyright (C)1997- 2004 JSTP. All Rights Reserved.