Greetings from Hongo. On behalf of Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo, we would like to thank you for participating in the SSJ-Forum this year. We trust that you have found enough of the messages interesting to make subscribing worthwhile, and hope that you will continue to read and respond to SSJ-Forum posts in 2018.

As the winter solstice has passed, we are soon having a holiday break from December 29th to January 4th, so the SSJ-Forum will shut down during the period. Postings that are sent to the forum during the break will be sent out on January 5th.

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We hope all of you will have a wonderful holiday season and a very happy and healthy new year.

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