Editorial

Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 8 (1998), 1.

It is the end of January, and the issue has finally come to print. Apologies for the delay. Life has been very busy since the last issue, with the Third International Tsukuba Bioethics Roundtable seeing 25 foreign guests and several hundred Japanese ones, for the Japan Association of Bioethics 9th Annual Meeting; immediately followed by the UNESCO ABC (with 60 foreign guests). Papers from those conferences will be published eventually from EJAIB (TRT3) and in a book. TRT3 and JAB9 abstracts are on-line.

After those meetings, travel and death have taken a toil on time. My mother, Eileen Rose Macer, who had served as an honourable secretary in the New Zealand branch since the beginning of Eubios Ethics Institute, passed away on 1 December, after 16 months fight with cancer. She passed away peacefully at the end, and the thoughts of the past year will be written down eventually. Before and after that, in addition to time here, and in New Zealand, conferences in Korea, UK, and India took time away, and all other trips are cancelled until the next issue.

The meetings in India were successful, seeing the founding of the All India Association of Bioethics, with President Jayapaul Azariah. More details will follow in the next issue, as will reports from conferences across India. Thanks to renewals, and immediately below the founding of the ABA, one of the events of 1997 to remember, perhaps only shadowed by the cloning debate debated below. One New Year resolution is a promise to spend more time with guests who can return to Tsukuba in 1998!

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