The SAGA Light Source (SAGA-LS) is an accelerator facility for the synchrotron radiation experiments. The accelerator complex consists of a 255 MeV linac and a 1.4 GeV storage ring. The commissioning of the accelerator began on August 2004. The SAGA-LS has been stably providing synchrotron radiation to users since it first stated user operation in February 2006. Currently three insertion devices (a planar undulator, an APPLE-II undulator and a 4 T superconducting wiggler) are in operaton. We present an overview of the accelerator performance with emphasis on the operational status and recent improvements and developments. In addition, recent studies on the superconducting wiggler, beam lifetime, laser Compton scattering, and the interaction between the electron beam and the crystal are also reported.

A brand-new proton therapy system having vertical layout in small space has been developed. The first system has been installed at Aizawa Hospital in Japan from April 2012. Tuning of the system has been started from October 2012, and we have confirmed main specifications of this system. We are now in the process of acquiring and verify the data for the treatment planning.

The LEPS2 beamline, which produces a linearly polarized photon beam up to 2.9 GeV via laser Compton backscattering, has been constructed at SPring-8. This new project aims to increase the beam intensity one order of magnitude more than that of the LEPS beamline and to enable the construction of large acceptance detectors with high resolutions. The first photon beam was successfully observed in the measurements of energy spectrum, beam profile, and beam intensity. The construction and commissioning of the LEPS2 facility are described in this report.

The International Linear Collider-A World Wide Event: from Design to Realty was held in Asia, Europe, and North American on June 12 2013 with partial real time connection via the internet. The event celebrated completion of the Technical Design Report and the Detailed Baseline Design of the ILC. In this article, we report circumstances and snapshots of the Asian event at Sanjo Kaikan in the University of Tokyo.

The 23^rd International Conference on Magnet Technology (MT-23) was held at Boston in USA from July 14^th to 19^th in 2013.The brief overview of this conference is reported.