Nearly 70 participants from 12 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Canada, German Democratic Republic, Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Israel, Poland, Sweden, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United States of America, and the host country Japan) met in Kobe at the IAEA Technical Committee Meeting on Advances in Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) Research from 14 to 17 November 1983. It was the fifth Technical Committee Meeting on ICF, the last having taken place in Osaka in 1979 (Nuclear Fusion 20 (1980) 507).