Preface
The New Year Greeting
Jun TOMIOKA, 1
Explanations
Special Issue on “Future Design: Engineering Approaches and Social Practices”
Yutaka NOMAGUCHI, 2
Social Practice for Disaster Prevention and Education (Futurability Education based on Future Design)
Tetsusei KURASHIKI, 8
Present State of the Water Issues in Developing Countries Assumed from the Results of a Future Design Workshop Held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Masashi KURODA, 12
Papers (Published in J-STAGE)
Skew of Frictional Power Transmission Flat Belt Driven by Pulleys with In-Plane Angular Misalignment
Seiji MITSUBAYASHI, Kota TSUTSUMI, Kiyotaka OBUNAI, Kazuya OKUBO, 19
Improvement of Mechanical Properties of Materials for Magnesium alloy Die-casting by Heated Sleeve Systems
Yuki KASHIWABARA, Mohd Danial IBRAHIM, Hitoshi WATANABE, Yuta SUNAMI, 33