Volume 13, Number 4 | Winter 2018

Editorial
Notification of Suspension of Publication of KAIM
The global spread of Oriental medicine, which began after President Nixon’s visit to China in 1972,
gathered strength and led to movements in various countries throughout the 1990s and 2000s to institutionalize
Oriental medicine, either within or separate from their existing medical care systems, against the backdrop ofconditions under which the Western countries groped for policies that might break the impasse in increasingly
serious health issues and Western medicine in advanced countries, particularly in the U.S. It was the People’s
Republic of China, however, that pushed the global diffusion of Oriental medicine as a national policy, and as
a result, Oriental medicine spread to and institutionalized in many countries around the world, where it is
now regarded as Traditional Chinese Medicine.
However, countries and regions other than China, including Japan, the Korean peninsula and Vietnam,
also have over 1,000 years of history using Oriental medicine, and throughout their own histories each country
has made unique developments that have contributed to the maintenance and promotion of the health of itspeople.

In Japan, over 80% of western medical doctors now uses decoction, known as “Kampo”, in clinicalpractice, and acupuncture and moxibustion is performed as a clinical treatment that takes advantage of bothmodern and classical medicine theories.

In addition, there are researchers who study Kampo medicine andacupuncture-moxibustion professionally from the standpoints of classical and modern medicine, respectively,and extensive excellent research has been reported.

The characteristics possessed by the decoction andacupuncture-moxibustion that have become so widely used in those countries was not known, however,including even in Japan, a situation that continues in no small way even today.
Concerned about this situation, we began publishing The Journal of Kampo Acupuncture and IntegrativeMedicine (KAIM) in 2005 with the goal of telling the world about Japanese Kampo and Japanese acupuncturemoxibustion, to inform the world of the existence of Oriental medicine used broadly in Japan, which differsfrom Traditional Chinese Medicine, and explain the nature of Kampo to the world.
KAIM has been edited and printed in Japan, and published in the U.S. by International Institute of Healthand Human Services, Berkeley.

Each year we have held several editorial meetings, and over the years

published 52 issues in 13 volumes, along with special feature editions on acupuncture-moxibustion andKampo medicine.
Because of various circumstances, however, we will cease publication with this issue.
Although the extent to which we achieved our intended objectives might remain unknown, we believe wehave been able to enlighten the world about the existence and characteristics of Japanese Kampo andacupuncture-moxibustion.

Although our magazine has always been a work in progress, we hope that after

we have ceased publication a new magazine that will continue the purposes of this publication will arise.

Wealso hope that parties concerned with oriental medicine will be even more active in contributing articles tomagazines published in Europe and America, and Asia.

There are many people in Japan devoted to Oriental

medicine, and we believe – and hope – these individuals will pick up the baton and carry this work forward.
In closing, we wish to thank the many doctors and acupuncturists, pharmacists who have written for us,and all of the people who worked so closely with us for the publication of this magazine, over the past 13 years.

Executive Editor: Shuji Goto
Associate Editors: Hiromichi YasuiShuichi Katai
The Journal of Kampo, Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine (KAIM)

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