Chair : Yasuyoshi Watanabe (Kobe/Osaka, Japan) Vice-chair : Nancy G. Klimas (Miami, USA; President of IACFS/ME) Hirohiko Kuratsune (Osaka, Japan) Birgitta M. Evengård (Stockholm/Umeå, Sweden) Honorary Presidents :   Teruo Kitani (Osaka, Japan) Nobuya Hashimoto (Tokyo, Japan; President of Japan Society of Fatigue Science) Satoru Kaneko (Osaka, Japan; President, Osaka City University) Akira Shimizu (Osaka, Japan; President, Kansai University of Welfare Science) Organizing Committee :   Yasuyoshi Watanabe (Kobe/Osaka, Japan) Nancy G. Klimas (Miami, USA) Hirohiko Kuratsune (Osaka, Japan) Birgitta M. Evengård (Stockholm/Umeå, Sweden) Suzanne D. Vernon (Bethesda, USA) Leonard A. Jason (Chicago, USA) Benjamin H. Natelson (New Jersey, USA) Katherine S. Rowe (Melbourne, Australia) Kenny L. De Meirleir (Brussel, Belgium) David S. Bell (USA) Yoshiki Nishizawa (Osaka, Japan) Teruhisa Miike (Kobe, Japan) Nobutaro Ban (Nagoya, Japan) Chiharu Kubo (Fukuoka, Japan) Kazuhiro Kondo (Tokyo, Japan) Teruichi Shimomitsu (Tokyo, Japan) Osami Kajimoto (Osaka, Japan) Yoshinobu Hirayama (Osaka, Japan) Kiyoshi Matsumura (Osaka, Japan) Hirotaka Onoe (Kobe, Japan) Local Organizing Committee :   Yosky Kataoka, Masaaki Tanaka, Kouzi Yamaguti, Sanae Fukuda, Hidenori Koyama, Tokuzo Matsui, Kei Mizuno, Emi Yamano, Yoko Nagatomo