
The 78th Annual Meeting of the Anthropological Society of Nippon (Japan) was held from October 12th to 14th at the Umeda Sky Building and Osaka University Nakanoshima Center in Osaka. Professor Emeritus Shozo Matano of our laboratory served as Honorary Chairman, Associate Professor Yoshihiko Nakano served as Chairman, and the meeting was run by all members of the laboratory and alumni. This was the in-person meeting to be held after the COVID-19 pandemic had fully subsided, and the many members who attended made it a very lively event.