Translation from Communication Research Laboratory Edit: "Frontiers in Info-Communications Research ―Everything about the Communications Research Laboratory―", Dempa Publications, Inc., October 20,1999. Contents   Chapter1 Overview-Current Work and Future Vision   Chapter2 Next-Generation Communication Networks and Associated Applications   Chapter3 Challenges for New Communication Systems   Chapter4 Environmental Instrumental Observation and Its Advanced Application   Chapter5 Telecommunication Research Based on Learning from                 Human Beings and Biological Information Function   Chapter6 Towards Becoming an Independent Administrative Institution

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