About JMAJ

The Japan Medical Association Journal (JMAJ) was initially published as the Asian Medical Journal in 1956 and has since been fulfilling its mission of broadly informing other Asian countries about the activities of the Japan Medical Association (JMA) in particular. The journal's title was changed to the Japan Medical Association Journal in 2001 and publication has continued with the purpose of providing information to our medical colleagues not only in Asian countries but also throughout the world, including member associations of the World Medical Association (WMA) and Confederation of Medical Associations in Asia and Oceania (CMAAO).

The journal provides in detail the latest information on the international activities of the JMA, health policies, and the activities of local medical associations—information that is rarely available elsewhere. The JMAJ also publishes translations of articles on trends in specialist medical societies and medical articles originally published in the JMA's Japanese-language journal, the Journal of the JMA, introducing the latest information on medical and health care in Japan. International health leaders also contribute their frank opinions about health care in their individual countries.

The JMA also acts as the Asian-Pacific Regional Office for the WMA and Secretariat of the CMAAO and could therefore be said to be a base for information exchange within this region. By proactively publishing information about WMA- and CMAAO-related activities, we believe the JMAJ can also contribute to the documentation of important activities of these organizations.

Since 2007, the JMAJ has been published bimonthly and the contents have been enriched. It is our hope that the JMAJ will be used widely as a medium providing from the physician's perspective an overall picture of health care in Japan which, according to WHO figures, supports the highest health standards in the world.

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