Conference Chairs: Derrick M. Nault (University of Calgary, Canada) and Jou-juo Chu (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan).

Conference committee members: Rab Paterson (International Christian University, Japan), Hans Peter Liederbach (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan), Keiji Fujimura (Institute for Intercultural Communication, Japan), Anthony Torbert (Kobe Gakuin University, Japan).