The 1st Thailand-Japan International Academic Conference (TJIA2008) is one of the missions of Thai Students’ Association in Japan (TSAJ) to modernize the academic activity promoting the co-evolution of research and technology internationally. It consists of an academic cooperation between Thailand and Japan, which creates network among multidisciplinary of researchers, national institutions for innovation, industries, and societies forward the sustainable development perspective – the core objective of the conference. Recently, there are more than two thousands of Thai students and researchers studying in Japan and those numbers tend to increase progressively. The degree of utilization of their outcome knowledge into the community should be taken into account. For this reason, the TJIA2008 conference aims to gather and present the researches done by Thai students and researchers, who are studying in Japan and connect their academic research to the national institutions and industries. More significantly, the students and researchers from Thailand and around the world are also expected to participate in order to exchange and transfer knowledge and technology under the theme of “From Research to Sustainable Development”. Indeed, the participants in the conference come from several fields, namely, Natural Sciences and Technology, Life and Health Sciences, and Humanities and Social Sciences discipline, so that it can generate an interdisciplinary community conducting the new integration of solution for sustainable development. Furthermore, the conference is able to consolidate the students and researchers who are studying forwards sustainable development and create those directoriesand knowledge databases, which can be applied as an important resource for further development perspectives.