The Second International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese will be held on April 1-2, 2000 (Saturday and Sunday) at San Francisco State University (Humanities Auditorium). It will be jointly hosted by regional associations such as the Northern California Japanese Teachers' Association (NCJTA). This conference is intended to bring together researchers on the cutting edge of Japanese linguistics and to offer a forum in which their research results can be presented in a form that is applicable to those desiring practical applications in the fields of teaching Japanese as a second/foreign language and computer-assisted language learning (CALL) technology. Further information and registration info: www.sfsu.edu/~japanese/conference/. E-mail: mminami@sfsu.edu (Masahiko Minami, Conference Co-chair).