The Japan Society for Technology Plasticity (JSTP) has been contributing
to the development of the technology of palstcity since it was founded
in 1961. JSTP marked their 50 th anniversary in 2011.
At this time of the anniversary, JSTP would like to provide a new opportunity
for researchers and engineers who do not have proper opportunities for
sending out their achievements, so that they might be able to get publicity
for their results in areas from budding or fundamental research to application
in engineering. This new opportunity will activate human interaction between
countries and allow more people to take part in the interaction. Hence,
JSTP is now starting up JSTP Open e-journal as the new opportunity, whereby
the authors will be able to have their various articles on pastic forming
published without any burden of expense.