There are now more chiropractic colleges outside the U.S. than within its borders. The idea for the WFC began a decade ago, and ACA can be proud to have been one of the original organizations that helped give birth to a worldwide organization designed to meet the needs and challenges of an exploding chiropractic world in need of structure and function. Chiropractic is not licensed in many countries. Those people then go out and call themselves chiropractors. In Japan, there are now approximately 20,000 to 30,000 such laypeople claiming to be chiropractors.
Japan now has a new chiropractic college.
There is also a movement to raise the educational standards and stop those weekend diploma mills. This has been a major issue the WFC has been working on for the past two years. It is a complicated issue that has ramifications worldwide. This is also happening in other countries on a much smaller scale. The world has an eye on Japan.