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Abstract
The scientific content and the attendance at the second international conference on countercurrent chromatography, CCC 2004, held in Tokyo, Japan, August 28–31, are presented. The major events, scientific, as well as social, are described. CCC 2004 marked the 40th anniversary of Dr Ito's research activity in the field. The next CCC symposium will be held in the USA in 2006.
This special issue of the Journal of Liquid Chromatography & Related Technologies is dedicated to the memory of Fang‐Te Edward Chou, the founder of the Pharma‐Tech CCC Company, which heavily supported the venues of all symposia of the CCC series and could not participate to this one. He passed away on October 6th, 2004. He had been an ardent international ambassador for the technology and his contribution is greatly responsible for where the CCC technology is today. All articles in this special issue are dedicated to his memory. Thanks, Ed, we miss you.