JOURNAL OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNOLOGY OF PLASTICITY vol.48 no.557 June 2007 ---CONTENTS--- Essay Renaissance for Technology of Plasticity Tamotsu NAKAMURA 1(467) Raise the Social Status of Technology of Plasticity Hisashi NISHIMURA 3(469) Explanations Advanced Technologies of Friction Stir Welding Masaki KUMAGAI 5(471) Functional Development of Aluminum Frames f or Motorcycles -Synasism in Structure, Material and Production Engineering 2- Hiroshi YAMAGATA 10(476) Lectures Semi-solid Die-casting Method of Cast Iron Chiaki USHIGOME and Syuichi SHIKAI 17(483) Reports Activities of JSTP in 2006 Takashi ISHIKAWA 22(488) JSTP Awards Winners for 2007 Awarding Committee 25(491) 42nd Ordinary General Assembly of JSTP The 42nd Board of Directors 37(503) Paper Net Shape Forming of Dental Prosthetic Crown by DC Pulse Resistance Sintering Process of Titanium Powder Metal Yoshihiro KUBOTA, Tamotsu NAKAMURA, Shigekazu TANAKA, Kunio HAYAKAWA, Hideo NAKAMURA, Kazuo MOTOMURA and Teppei MIYAZAKI 95(561) Microstructures Formed on Low-fluorescence-intensity Glass Using Glassy Carbon Mold and Q-switched Laser Masaharu TAKAHASHI, Tomonori SASAKI, Zhen YANG and Ryutaro MAEDA 100(566) Copyright (C)1997-2007 JSTP. All Rights Reserved.