Mr. F. H. Abed, President Governing Board of BU visited Japan from December 04 to December 06 on a lecture tour at the invitation of Waseda University and Tokyo University. The ics of his two lectures at Waseda University School of Asia and Pacific Studies were "Participatory Development-Its Concepts, Forms and Management Issues" and "Role of Micro-finance in Poverty Reduction". At the Department of Political Science of the university he spoke on "Thirty Years of BRAC in Development". The subject of his talk at the School of Public Health of Tokyo University was "Breaking the Cycle of Poverty". The faculty, students, government functionaries and NGO leaders attended the lecture sessions.