Dear Colleagues; The XVI Particles and Nuclei International Conference (PANIC02) will be held in Osaka, Japan, from September 30 to October 4, 2002. The second circular and relevant information, particularly, call for contributed papers are given on our web site: http://www.rcnp.osaka-u.ac.jp/~panic02/ Sincerely yours. Hiroshi Toki RCNP Osaka University. Kenichi Imai Department of Physics, Kyoto University Co-Chairpersons of PANIC02 Tadafumi Kishimoto Department of Physics, Osaka University Scientific Secretary