We are sorry to inform you that the 6th biennial conference of the 
International Ninomiya Sontoku Association has been postponed.  It was 
originally scheduled for October 21-22 at Tsinghua University, 
Beijing.
I was supposed to give a paper there.  I won’t see my Chinese 
colleagues in October.  However, I should like to see the conference 
rescheduled in the near future!!

NINOMIYA Sontoku (1787-1856) was a Japanese farm technologist and the 
leading agricultural philosopher of the late Edo period (1600-1868).
A couple of decades after the end of isolationist policy and the Meiji 
Restoration (1868), Japanese leaders (in the government) discussed 
what to teach Japanese youth in Japanese and decided to recommend 
Ninomiya Sontoku.   _Evening Stories by Ninomiya Sontoku_ edited by 
one of his followers and _The Biography of Ninomiya Sontoku_ written 
by another follower were published in the 1880s and 1890s and well 
read by Japanese officials and educators.  36 volumes of _Ninomiya 
Sontoku’s Complete Works_ came out in the 1930s.

I planned to argue that in Japan "modern economic ideas" came 
considerably from Ninomiya's teachings.

We should appreciate if you could post any information of 
international economic research events planned recently in China.

Aiko Ikeo
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan