It has been ten years since the establishment of the Japan Society for Archival Science（JSAS）in 2004. This article first reviews the original aim of the society and analyzes how it endeavored to promote a wide discussion on archival science as well as to promote the idea of archives through its ten years of activities. As this decade has also been a time of great change in the archival environment in general, the achievement of the Japanese archival community, including the contribution of JSAS activities, is analyzed next. The article concludes by suggesting what JSAS should do to further consolidate the position of the archives sector in the next ten years.

This study considers the priorities for the sustainable development of corporate archives in Japan. First,corporate archives must create value, because this will highlight their importance for the companyʼs management. Second, Japanese-style management, characterized by internal transfer and promotion and the simultaneous recruiting of new graduates, creates structural difficulties for a company to hire people with a masterʼs degree in archival science as regular permanent employees. Basedoninterviewswithagroupof corporate officials who have work experience in corporate archives or museums, this study finds the following:

（1）archive management should be positioned close to the decision-making bodies in the organization;（2）its contemporary significance in terms of CSR needs to be communicated to managers and management; and（3）effective training for in-house transferees, including the compilation and use of reliable professional textbooks,is indispensable.

This article explores how European-based archival principles and methodologies were accepted, interpreted,and applied in the American archival community around the formative years of the Society of American Archivists, based on the analysis of the records of the National Archives and Records Administration. It was after the establishment of the National Archives in 1934 that the concept of respect des fonds began to be studied in earnest. The staff of the Archives devised the Record Group concept, taking into consideration the status of the U.S. federal government records. In the finding aids of the Record Groups, they respect and describe the filing schemes that were used during the current stage of the records. The principle of respect des fonds was interpreted and used as a practical solution in order to enhance the description of and access to the federal records that began to be transferred enmasse.

School archives are at risk of being scattered or lost when schools are closed or reorganized. School archives should be appreciated and be preserved as “historically important official documents”in the life cycle of documents and records. They should be not only preserved and managed but also utilized by residents. To achieve these goals, each local community must have a public records office. In other words, the public records office, which ensures the preservation and public availability of official documents, can act as a repository for school archives.