Greetings

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Dear colleagues,
On behalf of International Biophilia Rehabilitation Academy and the joint meeting organization of the "12th International Biophilia Rehabilitation Conference (IBRC), Public Citizen Lectures and Workshop" and the "19th Biophilia Rehabilitation Conference, Public Citizen Lectures and Workshop" (IBRC-BRC), I am pleased to announce my heartfelt greetings to my friends all over the world.
In the twenty-first Century, an aging society is increasing in countries all over the world, especially in the Northern hemisphere. The average longevity of Japanese is already over eighty years, there is no doubt but that Japan is the world's top country for longevity. In order to establish a well aging society, it is very important to enable elderly people continuing an independence life. And in order to realize it, we had started a standing committee in 1993, as the society for the socio-medical rehabilitation of the 21st century, and we were able to have a first academic meeting of the Biophilia Rehabilitation Academy in 1998.
We had held the first IBRC with the government of Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in 2002. It was held there in order to organize the International Academy as a study group and to establish the new civilization for solving the social disruption (Aging Crisis). Based on such an actual achievement, we hold the IBRC-BRC on a title “From Experience to A Science; Rehabilitation Medicine inevitably being restructured" this year. The IBRC-BRC is a leading international forum for the proposition of rehabilitation medicine, which can realize functional recovery. The rehabilitation medicine must be the thing to re-acquires the people's body function with activating works of the brain by the latent powers which we have in the brain, and the Acceptance of Disability of people must not occupy a big portion of it. The word “Biophilia” represents this process. We have built the fundamental concept of the rehabilitation medicine restructuring from the Acceptance of Disability.
Our study is for making a super-aged society sustainable and then it is not only the medical field but also psychosocial, economical, engineering and administrative fields. It is our great pleasure to have an opportunity of holding a joint meeting of the IBRC-BRC this year in Japan with honorable greetings of Minister of State for Healthcare Policy Akira AMARI and Keio university president Atsushi Seike. I extend my heartfelt gratitude from the bottom of heart to Honorable Minister of State Akira AMARI and Honorable university president Atsushi Seike.
I am looking forward to a fruitful meeting to all colleagues who want to make a super-aged society sustainable and to restructure the rehabilitation medicine.
Thank you very much.