Japanese Connectionists?

[Mark.J.Zeren@mac.Dartmouth.EDU]

    I am an undergraduate at Dartmouth College and have become very interested
in connectionist research.  I am spending the next year (Sept '88 - Sept '89)
in Japan.  I will be studying language through May with the University of
Illinois program at Konan University outside of Kobe.  If possible, I would
like to pursue my interest in neural nets while in Japan, particularly next
summer, thus getting "two birds with one stone."
		Any information about the connectionist community in Japan
would be of use to me.  

Mark Zeren
mark.zeren at dartmouth.edu