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The World Federation of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (WFAS) General Assembly and International Conference were held online in combination with on-site administration in Singapore on 18th-20th, November 2022. Members of the new Executive Committee (the 10th EC) were elected and future host cities were discussed in the General Assembly. Activities during the 9th EC term including collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), activities in the standardization working committee, financial report and proposals from EC members were reviewed in the 9th EC meeting which was held prior to the General Assembly. In the present article, we report the results of the EC meeting and the General Assembly and key topics from the International Conference.
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The WFAS Annual Conference 2019 was held between November 14th and 17th at Kaya Palazzo Hotel, Antalya, Turkey. The WFAS executive committee was convened on the 14th. In the EC (Executive Committee) meeting, the JSAM proposed inclusion of the Declaration of Helsinki (DoH) in the WFAS Code of Ethics. Other issues discussed in the EC meeting included approval of the special consultative status by the the United Nations ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council) and preparation of the next WFAS symposium in the Netherlands in 2020. Individual presentations and other exhibitions in the symposium are also introduced in the present report. In addition, recent large-scale RCTs of acupuncture conducted in China were reviewed.
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The Annual Conference and the 40th Anniversary of China Association of Acupuncture-Moxibustion was held in Hubei Wuhan City, China for three days from August 16th to 18th, 2019. This meeting was held every two years in China, and more than 2,000 participants gathered each time. The World Federation of Acupuncture-Moxibustion Societies (WFAS) supported it, and held an acupuncture pre-training seminar, in which the acupuncture and moxibustion situation of several countries was presented and a demonstration of their practical skills were shown on the first day. To achieve such purposes, representatives from six countries (China, United States, Korea, Netherlands, Iran, and Japan) were invited by WFAS. The theme was "Feature of acupuncture in own country style". I gave a presentation about the history of acupuncture and moxibustion in Japan and emphasized that "palpation" is a special characteristic of the Japanese style. Especially, I introduced Japanese style pulse diagnosis and palpation of the abdomen, back, and meridians. Moreover, I demonstrated a cosmetic facial acupuncture technique based on meridian therapy, which is gaining in popularity in Japan. On the next day, I gave a lecture and presented a practical skill of Japanese cosmetic facial beauty acupuncture for the Chinese Evidence Thumbtack Needle Society.
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The WFAS Houston 2016 annual conference was held in the Royal Sonesta Hotel, Houston, Texas, USA from 31 October to 2 November 2014. The theme of the conference was "East Meets West -Shaping the Future of Healthcare", and more than 900 acupuncture practitioners and scientists participated. The number of papers presented was 216, including 6 keynote lectures. Papers from Japan numbered 11.<BR>At the Executive Committee (EC) meeting, 39 of the 76 EC members were present (10 EC members sent a letter of attorney in advance), including 3from Japan. Although Tokyo was approved as a host city of WFAS 2016 last year, we proposed changing the venue to the Tsukuba International Congress Center, which was approved.
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Executive members of the World Federation of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Societies (WFAS) are elected in the general assembly (GA), which is held once every four years. In addition, member societies that will host the upcoming WFAS conferences over the next 4 years are determined in the GA. <BR>Japan hosted the 3rd World Congress of Acupuncture and Moxibustion in 1993, but has not been invited to host the WFAS annual conference for the past 20 years. In the 8 th WFAS GA held in the Sydney Convention Centre Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia on 1 November 2013, Japan was elected as the host country for the 2016 WFAS Annual Conference. Thus, the 2016 WFAS Annual Conference will be held in Tokyo, and hosted by the Japan Society of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (JSAM) and Japanese Traditional Acupuncture and Moxibustion Society (JTAMS).<BR>In the election of Executive Members, Shuichi Katai was elected as vice-president of WFAS and Ikuro Wakayama and Naoto Ishizaki were elected as executive members. The term for executive members is four years. In addition, Kiichiro Tsutani, former vice-president of WFAS, was appointed as honorable vice-president, and Yukio Kurosu, former honorable vice-president, was appointed as advisor.<BR>Academic programs were carried out for three days from 2 November 2013. In the WFAS conferences usually more than half of the papers are presented in Chinese, but in Sydney, most papers were presented in English. There were one invited lecture and 13presentations from Japan.
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The 2012 WFAS International Congress and Workshop on Acupuncture were held at Mason Pines Hotel in Bandung, Indonesia on November 16-18, 2012. The last congress held in Indonesia was in 2006 in Bali. This was the second congress held in Indonesia since the establishment of the WFAS in 1987. <BR>The number of participants in the workshop and in the congress were 109 and 260, respectively, from 24 countries. There were seven keynote lectures and 51 oral presentations, including 5 by Japanese scientists.<BR>In addition, the 4th session of the 7th Executive Committee of WFAS was held on November 16, 2012 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Mason Pines Hotel.<BR>In this report, the agenda, a discussion of the WFAS Executive Committee meeting, and an outline of the oral presentations are introduced.
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The WFAS International TCM Convention (Global Tour on Acupuncture Styles -Malaysia) was held from April 30 to May 2, 2012 at the Pullman Hotel in Kuching, Malaysia. The theme of the convention was "Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Osteopathy, Cancer, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Chinese Medical Education."<BR>Topics in the field of acupuncture and moxibustion included a summary of Chinese acupuncture research that was conducted during its Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2006-2010), consideration of registering "TCM Acupuncture"in UNESCO's list of Intangible Cultural Heritage, and so on.<BR>The current state of clinical and research activities, legislation, and other topics regarding acupuncture in Malaysia were also introduced. There were more than 400 participants at the convention.
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I participated in the WFAS 2011 International Acupuncture Symposium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, which was the first conference in South America, on the theme of Traditional Medicine and Human Health. I had opportunities in this conference to survey and cover the history, situation and regulamentation of acupuncture in Brazil, in addition to the situation of Japanese Acupuncture taking root in Brazil. Iwould like to report it with some informations from the brazilian authorities.
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The World Federation of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Societies (WFAS) 2011 International Acupuncture Conference was held in Sao Paolo, Brazil on November 5 - 6, 2011. The theme was "Traditional Medicine and Human Health -Acupuncture Research, Education, Regulamentation and Clinical Practice."<BR>This was the first conference of WFAS in the Central and South American region. It was highlighted that acupuncture is included in the public health system of Brazil and supported by Brazilian government.<BR>At the executive meeting which was held on the 4th, it was announced that Extra points nomenclature and location would be on the next standardization table. Also, the preparation process of the International Acupuncture Proficiency Test was reported. They announced that they would run International Multicenter Clinical Trials in the newly established Scientific Working Committee of WFAS.<BR>Conference organization showed serious confusion. A protest letter from the domestic organizing committee was delivered. It led to the sudden cancelation of the closing ceremony.
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The World Federation of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Societies (WFAS) 2010 International Acupuncture Conference was held in San Francisco USA on November 6 - 7, 2010. The theme was "Acupuncture Research, Education and Clinical Practice."<BR>At the conference, the Society for Acupuncture Research (SAR), which was one of the organizers of the NIH Consensus Conference 1997, was one of the co-sponsors and also the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) presented as one of the keynote speakers. <BR>In recent years the international standardization of acupuncture related issues are moving to the forefront. WFAS is developing various standardization drafts related to acupuncture, starting with acupuncture needle regulations, which appear to be acting as a working unit of mainly Chinese ideas. WFAS has a plan to settle them as world standards through ISO, etc. However, the process of developing standard drafts does not appear democratic or fair. WFAS is indeed not democratically organized as inaccurate minutes for the executive committee meeting held at the conference contain crucial differences between the English version and the Chinese version.<BR>We need to correspond firmly to WFAS that has a formal relationship with WHO and acts high-handedly, as it leads to obstruction of fair recognition and further development of a variety of acupuncture and moxibustion medicine that has been developed in diversity in each country.
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The WFAS University Cooperation Working Committee and WFAS Standard Working Committee were held during 2009 WFAS World Acupuncture Congress at European Parliament in Strasbourg, France on 6 November 2009. Publishing an International Textbook of Acupuncture and Moxibustion was proposed in the WFAS University Cooperation Working Committee. Also establishing Making WFAS standards on acupuncture needles, nomenclature and location of auricular points, manipulation of moxibustion, and manipulation of scalp acupuncture were discussed and proposed in the WFAS Standard Working Committee.
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The Fifth Session of the Sixth Executive Committee (EC), the Seventh General Assembly (GA), and the First Session of the Seventh EC and 2009 World Acupuncture Congress of the World Federation of Acupuncture-Moxibustion societies (WFAS) were held at European parliament in Strasbourg, France on 3-7 November 2009.<BR>New EC members for the year of 2009-2013were elected in the GA. The Seventh EC commenced and now consists of 49 members. Host countries for the future meetings were also approved.<BR>In the Seventh EC, the Japan Society of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (JSAM) made a proposal regarding WFAS administrative duties. It consisted of eight items, and among them, the request for making the minutes of EC meetings was most important because WFAS EC meeting minutes have never been sent to the EC members except once, for the Bali, Indonesia meeting in 2006.<BR>Papers regarding acupuncture education, legislation, traditional research and scientific research were also presented in the academic meeting.<BR>JSAM will continue to support the enhancement of the academic level of WFAS and make any necessary proposals toward the further development of WFAS.
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A WFAS meeting for a standard for acupuncture needles was held in Suzhou, China on September 16, 2010. A delegate from the Department of International Affairs of JSAM accompanied by three experts from an acupuncture needle manufacture (Seirin Corporation) attended the meeting with the purpose of requesting modifications of the draft. <BR>Suggestions from Japan included;(1) clearly define type of needle as 'Sterile filiform acupuncture needles for single-use', (2) not to limit the materials used for the needle body, (3) not to define upper/lower limitations in the size of the needle, (4) add some tests to guarantee safety such as limits for acidity or alkalinity and limits for extractable metals and an endotoxin test, (5) elimination of unnecessary tests regarding needles including hardness, puncture performance, strength, (6) change the term 'normative'in the quality testing method to 'informative'. <BR>According to the suggestions from Japan, modifications in the 'Scope'(defining type of needle as 'filiform') and in the 'Material'section (any kind of materials in accordance with ISO/TS 15510:2007) were annexed to the resolution. However, there is still a need to continue requesting modification of other issues to develop a better draft of the WFAS standard, which will be submitted to an ISO/TC 249 meeting in the near future.
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An International Symposium for Developing an Acupuncture Standard of WFAS was held at the WFAS Office Building in Beijing on 18 May 2010. The aim of this meeting was to make the WFAS Industry Standard and to further develop the International Standard of Acupuncture and Moxibustion.<BR>JSAM dispatched two representatives to the meeting as informal observers. The reason why JSAM did not send representatives formally is that there was a serious discrepancy regarding the resolution of the EC meeting between WFAS and JSAM. However, after the several discussions with WFAS, JSAM eventually decided to send informal representatives who have a right to speak. JSAM presented the necessary information about Japanese moxibustion as well as its techniques.
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WFAS Executive Committee meeting was held on 6 November 2008 in Beijing, China. Firstly, WFAS secretary reported what they have achieved since last meeting in 2007. Then some important issues such as revision of membership certificate and revision of WFAS constitution were proposed and discussed. The 7th WFAS World Congress of Acupuncture had been decided to be held in Korea in 2009, but it was cancelled because of the recent economic crisis. The alternative venue for the next congress was not decided but France and/or Germany could be the candidate. In addition, Dr. Tsutani made a suggestion about the WFAS ethic codes on the WFAS website and it was approved.
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WHO Congress on Traditional Medicine was held in Beijing, China from 7 to10 November 2008. Dr. Margaret Chan, Secretary General of WHO addressed a speech at the opening ceremony, emphasizing the role of traditional medicine (TM) /complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in primary health care and preventive medicine. During the congress, the Beijing Declaration was adopted. The Declaration affirms the importance of government action to promote the integration of TM /CAM into their health care system.<BR>In addition, there were four satellite symposia, including the symposium of the World Federation of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Societies (WFAS). In line with the principle of the congress, a session regarding the present status of legislation, education and research in each member country was presented. In the executive committee meeting of WFAS, revision of the constitution and other issues were discussed. The university cooperation working committee of WFAS proposed a project editing an international textbook on acupuncture and moxibustion.
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20th anniversary congress of the World Federation of Acupuncture-Moxibustion Societies (WFAS) was held in Beijing, China on 20-22 October 2007. The congress was characterized by 1) cerebration of 20th anniversary of WFAS, 2) distinguished guests from World Health Organization (WHO) were invited, and they gave us a lecture, 3) WFAS executive committee showed a strategic plan for future 10 years. <BR>Although WFAS strategic plan has not carried out properly in the past 10 years, it could be completed in the next 10 years. WFAS is changing from what it used to be. Therefore, JSAM has to reconsider its strategic plan for WFAS and for the worldwide spread of acupuncture and moxibustion.
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The third session of the sixth Executive Committee (EC) of WFAS was held on 24 November 2006 at Sanur Paradise Hotel in Bali, Indonesia. Fourteen members including Deng Liangyue (President of WFAS), David P. J. Hung (Ex-president of WFAS) were present and eight members were absent. From the Department of International Affaires of JSAM, TAKASAWA Naomi and I attended the meeting on behalf of Japanese EC members, KUROSU Yukio (Vice president of WFAS) and TSUTANI Kiichiro (Counselor of JSAM). TOGO Toshihiro, a member of our department also attended the meeting as an observer.<br>The meeting started with opening remarks from Li DaNing, vice-Director of SATCM (State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine) and the session was chaired by Shen ZhiXiang (Secretary-general of WFAS). In the meeting, the following issues were discussed and approved.<br>1. A cooperation plan between WHO and WFAS, 2007-2009 was presented.<br>2. Four proposals from the WFAS secretary-general were presented.<br> 2-1 Proposal on holding an academic conference<br> 2-2 Proposal on strengthening work of the World Journal of Acupuncture-Moxibustion.<br> 2-3 Proposal on the establishment of committee offices<br> 2-4 Proposal on developing member societies of WFAS.<br>3. Another four proposals regarding the establishment of four Committees were also presented by the secretary-general; Science and Technology Committee, University Cooperation Committee, International Volunteer Working Committee, and Management Committee of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicinal International Standardization Foundation.<br>4. Nine new groups were approved for admission to WFAS as member societies.<br>5. A new working committee nomination list was introduced and executive committee decided to contact committee members in three months for a vote.<br>6. The secretary-general of WFAS reported on the present state of WFAS website (www.wfas.org.cn) and a plan about the WHO internet tool case program on Traditional Medicine.<br>7. Li Weiheng, president of the China association of acupuncture-moxibustion, introduced the preparation of the 20th anniversary of WFAS and international acupuncture congress.<br>Lastly, President Deng made a closing address to conclude all of the issues on the agenda.