XTE J1118+480 fading trend continues Dear Colleagues, The recent data reported to the VSNET Collaboration team, including the Kyoto long run on May 23, confirms the fading trend (vsnet-campaign 96, 98, and 102) continues. More detailed analysis, together with the annoucement of the data set received, will be presented later by Uemura-san. Regards, Taichi Kato VSNET Collaboration team