What do The Language Teacher, the KALT Newsletter (Kansai), the KALT Newsletter (Kanto), and the JALT Newsletter have in common? They are all the same thing (or closely related). And the middle two are older than JALT! The KALT Newsletter (Kansai) began in 1976 as the newsletter of the Kansai Association of Language Teachers. When some former members began an association in Nagoya (Tokai ALT) and Tokyo (Kanto ALT), the newsletter traveled with them. Nancy Nakanishi-Hilderbrandt, the first editor, carefully gathered material that would allow teachers in Japan to keep up with what was happening in the world of language education. This publication name lasted through 1978.