2017Asian Physical Therapy Forum
アジア理学療法フォーラム

Office of Healthcare Policy, Cabinet Secretariat, Japan
Japanese Physical Therapy Association

Tokyo Bay Ariake Washington Hotel,Tokyo, Japan0|September 27-28, 2017

Overview

Photo: JPTA President, Kazuto Handa

In the fall of 2017, the Asian
Physical Therapy Forum was held at
the Tokyo Bay Ariake Washington
Hotel (Tokyo), by Japanese Physical
Therapy Association and coorganized by Office of HealthcarePolicy, Cabinet Secretariat, Japan.

As part of the promotion of "The Asia Health and Wellbeing Initiative(AHWIN)”, which is the initiative of the public and private sectors, theforum aimed to establish and enhance a network for collaboration andcooperation among the professional associations of physical therapy
in Asian countries / territories. From 14 Asian countries / territories,representatives of Association of Physical Therapy was participated.
In the forum presenters mentioned about rapidly progressing aging
society in Asian, precedent cases and technologies, experiences withsocial systems, initiatives in Japan were widely introduced, and it wasalso a place to exchange various opinions.

1|Introduced about the Asia Healthand Wellbeing Initiative (AHWIN), weneed to cooperate for contributing
development of healthy aging
society. Not only medical treatment,
preventing long-term care conditions
andjiritushien(Supporingindependent living).

Photo: Deputy General, Koji Fujimoto

Participants visited to “International Home Care & Rehabilitation
Exhibition(HCR)” and Tokyo Wangan Rehabilitation Hospital to know
newest technology, real situation of medical and long-term care inJapan.

Photo: Visit HCR ①

Photo: Visit HCR ②

Participants

・Speakers (see appendix)
・Co-organizers
Office of Healthcare Policy, Cabinet Secretariat: Mr. Koji FUJIMOTO (Deputy DirectorGeneral), Kosuke Maekawa, Mr. Kosuke Maekawa, Miss. Yuri Endo・Invited guests
Healthcare and Long Term Care Policy, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN andEast Asia (ERIA), Mr. Sota MACHIDA (Senior Officer)
Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE), Mrs. Satoko ITO (Managing Directorand Chief Program Officer)
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Health Policy Bureau, Medical Professions
Division, Mr. Teiji TAKEI (Director)
・Delegates from PT association in Asia
25 delegates from 14 member organizations (see at next page)・Japanese Physical therapy association,
JPTA Board members, language supporters13 JPTA members
2|Participants from physical therapy organizations in Asia
No
1NameHong Kong

Mr. Brian MAPosition
Executive Committee Member ofHKPA

2Mongolia

34Taiwan5

Ms. ARIUNAA Khadbaatar

President of MPTA

Ms.BATLKHAM Dambadarjaa

Secretary of MPTA

Dr. Jau-Yih Tsauo

President

Dr Pay-Shin Lin

Chair of the Committee of Promotionof the Continuing Care

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Dr. Suh-Fang Jeng

Chairperson of WCPT-AWP Region

7Malaysia

Ms. Yew Su Fen

President of MPA

8Philippine

Mr. Michael Pereyra Gabilo

PRESIDENT of PPTA

9MyanmarMs. Yin Min Mar

Yankin Children General Hospital

Ms. Theingi San

Executive Member from Mandalay
SPA council members

1011Singapore

Mr

12Indonesia

Mr. Moh.Ali Imron

President of IPA

Mr. Parmono Dwi Putro

Vice President of IPA

Salman Malik

Member Board Of Directors PPTA

Dr. Muhammad Aamir Saeed

Secretary general of PPTA

Nishchal Shakya

President of NEPTA

Mr. Suresh Kumar Shrestha

NEPTA executive

Dr. Taesik Lee

President of KPTA

Dr. Wootaek Lim

Chair

13
14

Pakistan

15
16

Nepal

1718Korea

19

SAIRAM AZADofinternational

committee, KPTA
20

Bangladesh

2122Sri Lanka

NASIRUL ISLAMPRESIDENT of BPA

SHAHADAT HOSSAIN

Secretary general of BPA

Mr.Tennakoon

President of SLSP

Mudiyanselage

Nandasena Mettananda
23

Mr.Jayakody Arachchige Rasika

SecretaryLakshman
24
25

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Thailand

Mr.PreechaAsawakosinchai

President PTAT

Dr.Prapas

Executive Committee

Pothongsununaffairs

Photo: Participant’s photo session

Photo: After the forum

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Photo: Welcome reseption

Appendix

Time schedule
27th September（Wednesday）
8:40

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9:00

Registration (at Iris, 3rd floor)

9:00

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9:30

Welcome speech and opening lecture

9:30~

10:00

Call for each associations of physical therapy

10:00
10:10

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10:10
13:50

Guest speech

13:50

14:15

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17:00

18:00

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20:00

10:10
10:50

12:50

10:40
12:05

① Seminar session
・Asia Health and Human Well-Being Initiative
・Lecture: Case1 Preventive Physical Therapy
Epidemiological figure~Lunch time~・Demonstration: Walk Assist Robot② H.C.R. site visit (at Tokyo Big Site)
・Tour with demonstration
・Some exhibition booths etc.
Welcome reception (at Grand Blanc, 21st floor)*Hall will be opened from 17:30~

28th September（Thursday）9:00

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10:15

③ Seminar session (at Iris, 3rd floor)
・Lecture: Case2 Preventive Physical Therapy
Training Program for Silver Rehabilitation Exercise

10:30

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12:30

④ Discussion*Lunch will be served in this discussion

12:30

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13:00

Closing ceremony*Clinical visiting: Move to the bus for optional tour

Venue ：Tokyo Bay Ariake Washington Hotel
3-7-11 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0063, Japan

Greating

Dear All Participants:
In Japan, under the public-private partnership platform of the“Committee on the Asia Health and Human Well-Being Initiative” based on
the “Asia Health and Human Well-Being Initiative”, we are promoting
initiatives in response to the advanced aging of society, a common issue in
Asian countries. These initiatives are based on the mutually beneficial
approach of building integrated community care systems in the Asia regionand promoting of private businesses in the Asia region in order to create anew Asia where sustainable economic growth is possible through therealization of a society of healthy longevity and UHC in response to therapidly advancing aging of society.
As a part of the promotion of the Asia Health and Human Well-Being
Initiative from the perspective of the participation of physical therapists inprevention, rehabilitation, and independence support in the healthcareand nursing care area, Japanese Physical Therapy Association will beholding the “Asian Physical Therapy Forum”. Physical therapists from 14
Asian countries has been invited to build and organize a collaborative
system among physical therapists in the respective Asian countries
through discussions and collaboration among physical therapy
associations of the respective Asian countries and the sharing ofprecedents and technologies from Japan.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation and support as we join hands
as partner organizations for the advancement of physical therapy in Asia.
Kazuto Handa
President, Japanese Physical Therapy Association1

Guest speech

Keizo Takemi
Member, House of Councillors, Japan; Chairperson, Asian
Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development(AFPPD)
Keizo Takemi is a Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) member of
the Japanese House of Councillors who also served as statesecretary for foreign affairs in the Obuchi Cabinet in 1999, andas Senior Vice Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in thefirst Abe Cabinet. Within the LDP, he is serving as Chairman ofPolicy Board in the House of Councillors and Chairman of theSpecial Mission Committee on Global Health Strategy of thePolicy Research Council.
Takemi is a Senior Fellow at JCIE. He has been involved invarious global initiatives, including the Commission on
Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s
Health Global Health Workforce Alliance, WHO Expert Working
Group on R&D Financing, and the International Organizing
Committee of the Prince Mahidol Award Conference. He has
also been serving as Chair of the Parliamentary Caucus on StopTB Partnership since March 2013, and Chair of the AFPPD
since October 2013.

2Biographical Notes
Asia Health and Human Well-Being Initiative
Koji Fujimoto
Deputy Director General, Office of Healthcare Policy, Cabinet Secretariat, Japan
Upon graduating from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, where the majoredin mechanical engineering, Koji Fujimoto joined the Ministry of International
Trade and Industry (now the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, or METI)
in 1987. He completed his Master in Public Policy at the Harvard University
Kennedy School in June 1993. After working in various sections of METI, he wasappointed director of the Medical and Assistive Device Industries Office of theCommerce and Information Policy Bureau in 2003. In 2005, he was seconded tothe Dusseldorf Center in Germany of the Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO) as director of the Light Machinery Industries Center. On returning toJapan, he returned to METI and was appointed as director of the Service
Industries Division (2008-2011) and director of the Light Machinery Industries
Division (2011-2012) of its Commerce and Information Policy Bureau. He wasappointed to serve in the Cabinet Secretariat in 2012, initially as counselor tothe Office of Health and Medical Policy and then as deputy director-general ofthe Office of Health and Medial Policy from 2015.

Preventive Physical Therapy:
Training Program for Silver Rehabilitation Exercise
Hitoshi Ota
Ibaraki Prefectural Health Plaza
Medical Doctor
President, Community Rehabilitation Promotion Council in Ibaraki Prefecture
President, Health Ibaraki Promotion Council
Advisor, Promotion Committee of The Integrated Community Care System,
Ibaraki Style
Background
Born in Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture
March 1962, Graduated from Tokyo Medical And Dental University, Faculty of Medicine
January 1973, Head of Department of Rehabilitation,Izu Teishin Hospital (Currently as NTT EAST Izu Hospital)
June 1993, Deputy Director, Izu Teishin Hospital (Currently as NTT EAST Izu Hospital)
September 1995, Professor, Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences
December 1996, Director, Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences Hospital
April 2005, Manager of Ibaraki Prefectural Health Plaza
Honorary Professor, Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences
May 2015, Honorary Director, Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences Hospital3

Preventive Physical Therapy:Epidemiological figure
Minoru Yamada
Work experience
August 2008, Assistant Professor in Human Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine,Kyoto University
April 2014, Associate Professor in Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences,
University of Tsukuba

Academic background
March 2005, Kobe University School of Medicine
March 2007, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University (Master)March 2010, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University (PhD)

Specialized field
Geriatrics, Rehabilitation

Key wards
Frailty, Sarcopenia, Fall, Prevention, EpidemiologyAward•••••The Geriatrics & Gerontology International Best Reviewer Award 2016
The Geriatrics & Gerontology International Best Article Award 2012
The 20th IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics Best Poster Award 2013
The 1st Asian Congress of Medical and Care Facilities Best Poster Ward
The 2nd Scientific Meeting of the Asian Federation of Osteoporosis Societies AwardDemonstration: Walk Assist RobotHiroki Tanikawa
Dr. Hiroki Tanikawa is an assistant professor of Faculty of Rehabilitation, School of
Health Sciences, Fujita Health University, Aichi, Japan. He is a national certified
physical therapist. He received his Ph.D. in rehabilitation medicine (gait analysis forstroke patients) from Fujita Health University. His specialty is motion analysis,
especially gait analysis.
His clinical interests include kinematic analysis for abnormal gait pattern in stroke
patients, quantitative evaluation of effects of some treatments in gait rehabilitation(e.g., braces, Botulinum Toxin A, and rehabilitation robots), and development of gait
rehabilitation programs based on quantitative gait analysis.
Background2001-2005 Tokyo Metropolitan University of Health Sciences
Apr. 2005 National certified physical therapist
2010-2012 The Open University of Japan (master’s course)
2012-2016 Graduate School of Medicine, Fujita Health University (doctoral course)
Affiliated academic organizations
Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine
Japanese Physical Therapy AssociationJapanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
Japanese Society for Neural Repair and Neurorehabilitation
World Federation for Neurorehabilitation
The Clinical Gait Analysis Forum of Japan4

About the organizers
Office of Healthcare Policy, Cabinet Secretariat, Japan
In promoting a society of health and longevity, the government of Japan
enacted the ‘Healthcare Strategy Promotion Act in May 2014; followed by theestablishment of the Headquarters for Healthcare Policy in June, and theCabinet approval of the ‘Healthcare Policy’ in July, of the same year. One ofthe objectives stated in the ‘Healthcare Policy’ is to promote overseas
activities of the healthcare sectors by building mutually beneficial
relationships with foreign countries, especially, in fields of medicine andelderly care.
Based on the ‘Healthcare Policy’the Office of Healthcare Policy, Cabinet
Secretariat, Japan is promoting a new initiative called the “Asia Health andWellbeing Initiative (AHWIN)”,which launched in 2016, that aims to amassbilateral and regional cooperation on aging-related efforts in Asia in order toattain both making ideal aging society and economic growth throughreciprocal and mutually beneficial approaches.
In August 2017, The Cabinet Secretariat of Japan co-hosted the Multistakeholder forum in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam, where started cooperation
with Asian countries regarding AHWIN.

Japanese Physical Therapy Association (JPTA) was formed on July 17,
1966, by 110 licensed physical therapists. It was approved as anincorporated association by the predecessor of the Ministry of Health,Labour, and Welfare in January 1972 and became a member of theWorld Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT) in 1974. In 1990, it
was recognized by the Science Council of Japan as an academic
research organization.
More than 50 years have passed since the association’s foundation,and physical therapists today are involved in a wide range ofprofessional areas. The association meets a variety of social needs andis proud to go about its work as the only academic and professional
association performing physical therapy in Japan.

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