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