PRESIDENT Noboru Yamanaka (Japan) HONORARY PRESIDENT Paul B. van Cauwenberge (Belgium) Jaroslav Slipka (Czech) GUEST OF HONOUR Akikatsu Kataura (Japan) EXECUTIVE ADVISORY COUNCIL Atsushi Komatsuzaki (Japan) SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COUNCIL Hazime Aramaki (Japan) David E. Briles (USA) Per Brandtzaeg (Norway) Luiza Hayashi Endo (Brasil) Howard Faden (USA) Iwao Honjo (Japan) Akinori Kida (Japan) Sang-Yoon Kim (Korea) Jan LL. Kimpen (Netherlands) Hiroshi Kiyono (Japan) Yu Masuda (Japan) Emilio Mevio (Italy) Goro Mogi (Japan) Tadao Nishimura (Japan) Pearay L. Ogra (USA) Ken Okamoto (Japan) Desiderio Passali (Italy) Britta Rynnel-Dagöö (Sweden) Jaroslav Slipka Jr. (Czech) Mária Staub (Hungary) Lars-Eric Stenfors (Norway) Hiroshi Takanaka (Japan) Takuya Uemura (Japan) Jan Veldman (Netherlands) Toshio Yamashita (Japan) Syunpei Yokota (Japan) Ruby Pawankar (Japan) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Roberto P. Garofallo (USA) Yasuaki Harabuchi (Japan) Tetsuo Himi (Japan) Hideyuki Kawauchi (Japan) Michio Kimura (Japan) Yuichi Kurono (Japan) David Nadal (Switzerland) Ann Schilder (Netherlands)