Dear Professor Okada,

I and all the members of the Institute of Physiology and Biophysics staff
express our deepest condolences with the catastrophic earthquake  which
happened in Japan last week. We hope that our coleagues at the National
Institute for Physiological Sciences are all safe. We do understand your
present feelings and hope that Japan will recover soon from the
consequences of this natural disaster.

Sincerely yours,

Pulat B. Usmanov
Director of Institute of Physiology and Biophysics,
Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan.