The article presents information regarding the 8th Russia, CIS, Baltic and Japan Symposium on Ferroelectricity that was held in Tsukuba, Japan, May 15-19, 2006. Various important topics that were discussed in the meeting include ferroelectric phase transitions, relaxors, multiferroics, piezoelectric materials, lead free ferroelectrics and elastic and inelastic scattering, advances in theory and others.