The 14th Congress of SIDUO, held in Tokyo from October 26 to October 30, 1992, was the first congress meeting to be held in Asia in the 30-year history of SIDUO. The congress was organized by the Department of Oph- thalmology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, with the support of the Japanese Ophthalmological Society, the Japan Society of Ultrasonics in Medicine and the Japan Society of Ophthalmologists. The organizing committee consisted of the following members. Congress President: Sadanao Tane, M. D. (Professor and Chairman, St. Marianna University School of Medicine) Vice-presidents: Atsushi Sawada, M. D. (Professor and Chairman, Miyazaki Medical College) Masayasu Ito, Ph. D. (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology) Secretary General: Yasuo Sugata, M. D. (Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital) Finance Committee: Koji Ohashi, M. D. (Assistant Professor, St. Marianna University School of Medicine) Akira Komatsu, M. D. (Assistant Professor, St. Marianna University School of Medicine) Toshio Kaneko, M. D. (Assistant Professor, St. Marianna University School of Medicine) Publicity and Exhibition Committee: Hideyuki Hayashi, M. D. (Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Fukuoka University) Akihiro Kaneko, M. D. (National Cancer Center) The Honorary Presidents were Yukio Yamamoto, M. D. (Tokyo Tama Geriatrics Hospital) and Yasuo Uemura, M. D. (Professor Emeritus, Keio University) . The opening ceremony began with the Francois Memorial Lecture given by Professor Peter Till (Standardized Echography: Quantitative Analysis of XlI Tissue Backscatter - A Major Source of Information for Tissue Diagnoses).

Considering the high incidence of myopia - and its inherent morbidit- it may wonder that the item is dealt with only sporadically in recent literature, and almost never at international conferences. However, there was a First International Conference on Myopia in New York 1964, and the Second was held in Yokohama 1978, affiliated to the XXIII World Congress of Ophthalmology. Here it was attempted to set out lines for future myopia research, and, as a practical implicaton, the arrange ment of the Third International Conference on Myopia was entrusted to Danish ophthalmolOgists. This conference took place in Copenhagen, August 24-27, 1980. To make the scope the widest possible, the conference was, as was the pre decessing in Japan, open not only to ophthalmologists, but 'to all being active in the various aspects of myopia research'. The conference report gives a picture of the Copenhagen meeting. Furthermore, a platform or current status of myopia research has hereby been established. The editors have made it their main task to arrange the papers, and to bring them in a form suited for print, while criticism by editorial referees has been considered inappropriate. The papers give an impression of the ambiguity still prevailing in the field, and although 't, rends' are obvious, a fmal consensus of Conference was not arrived at. To document this state of affairs, however, is considered a useful task."