At IMC in Tokyo, a major means of communication with authors, publishers, distributors, those in Japan and those in every corner of the earth, is by email. Call it spam, unsolicited commercial email, or whatever nasty name you can think up. But, the speed of email makes it hundreds of times faster than airmail letter, fax, or any other option. But, and it is a "BIG" but, most email gets trashed by a whole range of spam/virus filters on the host computer, the network and the local computer. In my own inbox, 90% of the mail is junk. 90% of the remaining 10% is stuff I am happy to look at but have no intention of doing more than glancing at and then trashing.
    In short, we want to be sure that you will at least glance at email messages and announcements that we send you. So, we ask that you sign up for a mailing list. We don't know what you want. Thus, we ask you to tell us your wants. The options now divide roughly as follows:

Can you (and your computer) understand?	English only	Japanese preferred	English & Japanese
Are you an author, editor, publisher?	Yes	No
Are you a book dealer (store, distributor, online)?	Yes	No
Where are you?	Japan	USA	Country is?
You are interested in books in which fields?	Travel Guides	Technical Petroleum Energy	Technical Aerospace	Other topics
You buy for whom?	Yourself	Company	Library	Government	University

    There are many books that we can announce but we try to be helpful but not a nuisance; so, we need some idea of your interests (likes and dislikes) in order to make good lists and be both efficient and helpful. The above table is imperfect but will give you some idea of the info that we need or would like to receive.  Just email us at the address below. Tell us a little about yourself/organization; tell us your interests, and we will add you to the most appropriate email announcement list.