The 10th RWPPI regular meeting was held on Dec. 18, 2001 in Tokyo. Dr. Sugimoto greeted the members with an opening speech. On account of the members' incessant support and cooperation, he thanked them for helping us mark our 10th regular meeting. He emphasized the fact that RWPPI's role will become increasingly important, and how necessary it was for the members' cooperation to feed accurate information to the market while mutually expanding in the industry. Furthermore, he ended his speech by making the final note about the mis-leading information against -R/RW format from a fellow industry company on a certain website, in which he intends to rectify the facts fairly and accurately. After, the media and hardware working committees presented their regular reports, followed by the announcement of Pioneer Corporation's establishment of RW Coordination Center to focus on business support more actively and aggressively to -R/RW compatibility.
With regard to the copyright related matters, the report on the progress of the European Levy System was made, followed by the report plans for the second overseas show participation for WCES (Winter Consumer Electronics Show) 2002 in Las Vegas, U.S.A. by the RWPPI staff
The meeting was closed with the special guest speaker, Mr. Toshifumi Murakami, the Yamagiwa Store Manager of Tokyo Branch. Yamagiwa Store is one of the leading electrical products wholesale distributor in Japan. His talk was on "Views of Memory Storage Devices from the Sales Side," which was very well received to hear actual views and needs from the people working closest to our customers.

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