Dear Registrants,

Due to the unexpected outbreak of the disease "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome" (SARS) in some regions, administration office of University of Tokyo, which ICRR belongs to, gives out an advise for it, and invitations for people from SARS-transmitting regions to Japan are recommended to be postponed. Fortunately, Japan still has no person suffering from SARS, and their advice is for maintaining this healthy state. We have to follow their advise although we regret it.

 The registrants will be kindly asked to send a mail to LOC of ICRC2003 (icrc2003@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp) and to agree to cancel to participate on the conference, if they are staying in the SARS-transmitting regions which are reported by World Health Organization (WHO) on the first decade of this July. (The SARS-transmitting regions may be checked in WHO homepage (http://www.who.int/csr/sars/en/).)  In this case, all money the registrants paid as conference registration fee, hotel accommodation fee, and so on will be refunded, and CDROM of the conference proceedings and hardcopy proceedings of the invited/highlight/rapporteur sessions will be sent without any extra payment. Also, if the registrants wish to get hardcopy proceedings of parallel sessions, we will send them to the registrants at cost after the conference.

ICRC2003 Local Organizing committee