The proceedings of a conference on the development of language capabilities to prepare United States scientists to share in scientific and technological development with Japan include these papers: "Are Japanese Language Programs Reaching Scientists and Engineers?"; "Japanese Language Study for Engineers: High Tech Perspectives"; "Applied Japanese Studies for Science and Engineering at American Universities"; "Training and Certifying Japanese Technical Translators"; "Designing Effective Language Teaching for Professionals"; "Problems in Teaching Technical Japanese"; "Commentary" A Cautious and Deliberate Strategy Is Needed"; "Establishing a Japanese High-Technology Information Company in the United States"; "The Problems of Operating a Technical Translation Company in Japan";"The Japan Information Center of Science and Technology"; "A National Agenda for Japanese Language Training"; "National Language Policies and the 99th Congress"; "Machine Translations: Developments and Prospects"; "Fujitsu's Machine Translation System"; "The Bravice Computer Translation System"; "The MIT Athena Language Learning Project: A View from the Future"; "Teaching Japanese on the PLATO Computer-Based Education System"; and "Enhanced Language Instruction: Interactive Video and Audio Technology". A list of conference participants is also included. (MSE)