The first release in a new electronic series published by the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Kansas, James J. Halsema's "Diary of the 1940 Japan America Student Conference" (ed. Grant Goodman) offers an interesting account of the last JASC conference before the Second World War. A student delegate to the conference (which was held in Japan), Halsema made a number of astute observations on Japan and its imperial state in Northeast Asia in his diary, which he fortunately kept and has now shared with readers. The diary is offered as a large single HTML document, accompanied by an introduction from the editor and an appendix. The new series, which the diary inaugurates, will publish primary documents, translations, and scholarly studies relating to China, Japan, and Korea.