The second KEK-Tanashi International Symposium on "Hadron and Nuclear Physics
with Electromagnetic Probes" was held on the Tanashi campus of KEK, High-Energy
Accelerator Research Organization from Oct. 25 to Oct. 27, 1999. The new KEK was
established in April 1997 by merging three laboratories including Institute for Nuclear
Study (INS), the University of Tokyo. INS has a long successful history of hosting international
symposia and schools on particle and nuclear physics. The new KEK intended to
continue its activity by organizing a series of international symposia. This is the second
of the new series