Continuing the 25th anniversary celebrations for JAAS, Hiroki Haraguchi and JAAS Editorial Board member, Naoki Furuta provide a detailed account of how the field analytical atomic spectrometry has developed in Japan over the last 25 years. This includes key contributors and landmark events and they also consider the prospects for area in the future.
Read this Editorial in the latest issue of JAAS:
Analytical atomic spectrometry in Japan over the last 25 years
Hiroki Haraguchi and Naoki Furuta
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2010, 25, 1371-1377
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C005496H