Japan 2012: Dr. Kiyohisa Takahashi

National Institute of Neurology and Psychiatry

2012

Public lectures have been held in Tokyo twice , the 4th of September 2011 and the 20th of March 2012, which was supported by Cabinet Office, Ministry of Health and Welfare, corporations, Japan Medical Association, Japanese Nursing Association, Japanese society of Public Health, Japanese Association for Dental Science.  In both cases more than 500 citizens  participated and mass media reported that events.  Now on 2nd of September 2012 there is the next plan for holding those lectures for citizens on numbers of sites in all parts of Japan.  Our organization is palnning to give lectures on healthy sleep to school teachers and nurses in near future.  They also plan to provide research fund to young sleep researchers.