Examining regulation for papers

1. Examination of all contributed items to be published in this journal (to be referred to as “paper” hereinafter) shall be in accordance with this regulation.

2. The role of the paper examination committee members shall be taken by the editing committee and the editing committee shall govern all items regarding examination of papers, de- termination of whether to publish or not, editing, etc.

3. The examining procedure of contributed papers is as follows:

1) The examiners of contributed papers shall be selected from editing committee members, but when there is no qualified examiner of a corresponding paper among editing com- mittee members, an outside person shall be invited and requested to examine papers.
2) Contributed papers shall be examined by more than two specialized persons of the corresponding field, and the list of examiners shall be kept entirely confidential, and the examination result shall not be disclosed except to the writer.
3) The examinations results of contributed papers shall be decided as “can be published,” “can be published after revision,” “re-examination after revision,” and “cannot be published.”
4) When a contributed paper is assessed as “re-examination after revision” by examiners, the paper shall be revised by the writer in accordance with the specific description of items to be amended or complemented before the revised version is to be re-examined by corresponding examiners.
5) For a paper that is assessed as “cannot be published” by examiners, the reason shall be specifically clarified, and when decisions of examiners differ from each other, such as “can be published,” “cannot be published,” and so forth, an examination shall be requested by the 3rd examiner by referring to the examination result and it shall be processed in accordance with the judgment. If the judgment whether to publish it or not cannot be decided by the 3rd examiner, such cases shall be examined by the editing committee for a final decision.
6) For the paper contributed to this society, its systematic frame and qualification state of its contents, and so forth will be thoroughly examined and only the paper which has passed the examination process will be published.
7) The examiner shall examine the requested manuscript, and shall send the examination opinion to the editing director together with the manuscript, and when a fixed amount of examination fee is received, the receipt shall always be acknowledged.

4. For examination criteria of contributed papers, research reports shall be examined by giving priority to originality, accuracy, objectivity, impartiality, verifiability, simplicity, and so forth, and outline paper, data thesis, et cetera shall be examined in accordance with each of their characteristics.

5. Items which have not separately been specified by this regulation shall be processed by deciding through discussion by the editing committee.