2024 Volume 78 Issue 1 Pages 64
In the chairman’s speech at the 52nd annual meeting of the Japanese Society of Pharmacognosy, I talked about the separation and independence of Natural Medicines as a new division to be the core course as well as aiming to launch an English-language journal. The vice president was Prof. Honda of Kyoto University, but we two were a good fit and met with Prof. Shibasaki of the University of Tokyo, who was the president of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan at the time, to beg for independence. At the subsequent Board of Directors meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, the matter was recognized. Meanwhile, Prof. Takeda, who was familiar with Springer, was able to successfully publish the Journal, and it was launched as the Journal of Natural Medicines.
