Activities of laboratory astrophysics in Japan

I report the activities of laboratory astrophysics (astrochemistry) in Japan. The relevant society in Japan is gradually spreading in the last decade. Thank to recent big projects, astrophysics and astrochemistry have been recognized as interesting interdisciplinary science among pure physicists and chemists. At the same time, technical developments enable us to investigate various elementary processes in both gas and solid phases, which used to be hardly performed. Interaction among researchers in laboratory astrophysics, astronomy, planetary science, physics, and chemistry is getting stronger. However, unfortunately, the number of researchers in laboratory astrophysics is still limited.