Sometimes I happen to hear the question “Is there anything left to study in the field of structural materials, especially in steel materials?” I try to answer this question in turn by asking a question of my own “How about materials that are currently being used in machines for transportation such as automobiles? Has the research of any of those materials been discontinued?” Japan is a processing trade country which prevails on exports such as cars and precision instruments. To maintain the competitiveness of these products, the research on structural materials must continue day and night without any interruption. If this research is discontinued, high quality products that are fit for that particular time period cannot be made, and the competition on industrial goods will decline. Although the research on structural materials has a long history, it is necessary to make an effort and to have the ability to find research topics, not in a passive but in an aggressive way.At our center, we will promote the research on structural materials that will support the processing trade country of 　Japan and the social infrastructure construction from the perspectives of environment and energy. We will make a breakthrough on the material characteristics and the processing technology based on a new technological method, not by any extension of the technology that we have used up to now. In addition to proposing inventions for new metallurgy and processing technology, we plan to come up with the theoretical proof to show the details and the limitations of an ideal system that will fulfill the properties that are being demanded.I hope that you will offer your encouragement and support to our center.