AJCC October 2000
Second CBP® Seminar Held in Japan
by Grant Reid, D.C.
From August 26 through August 31 near Tokyo, Japan the second CBP® seminar was held. In a short five days we managed to pack in a near fifty hours of instruction. This year’s seminar totaled 21 doctors. The doctors gathered from various parts of the country to undergo an intensive five-day program of study that started at 9:00 am, and went until 9:00 pm each day. Perhaps it is due to the cultural difference, or perhaps the thirst for knowledge and education, but whatever the case, there was no “burn-out.” The doctors were bright and enthusiastic the entire time. The first day was spent defining global subluxation, including pictures from Dr. Bill Ruch’s collection of subluxation pictures. Day two was used for study of posture, and the Cartesian coordinate listing system. The next three days were for adjusting technique, molding, traction, and exercises.
The 21 attendees of the seminar are all members of the Japan
Chiropractic Association. There are some four to five associations of
size in Japan. The JC is the largest organization. Chiropractic seminars
are few and expensive in Japan. There are only about 55 American College
Graduated doctors here. This means the education pipeline is small.
Bringing in a Doctor from America can be very expensive, not to mention
interpretation, hotel, and other fees. Contrary to popular belief, only
a small percentage of Japanese speak English, therefore, all instruction
is in Japanese, or requires an interpreter. The JC also sponsored a
two-week dissection study at Texas Chiropractic College this year.
Dissection studies in American are extremely expensive, and have been
all but completely dropped from most organizations seminar, and
curriculum schedules. JC has now sponsored two CBP® seminars. I only
mention this because there is no formal education program for
chiropractic in Japan. For this reason, many organizations don’t teach
much other than the basics of adjusting. The JC is the only organization
in Japan with an American Doctor (Me!) on staff and supporting their
efforts to improve the quality and standards of education here.
I asked Iwama Yasunori, the president of the Japan Chiropractic
Association why he felt CBP® should be taught in Japan. He had this to
say; “I feel chiropractic is about health. Our doctors
Hajime Satou, Kazuko Kunitate,
Jumko Kimura, Katsumi Mizukami, Shozo Nakano, Kazuo Yuhara, Tatsuya
Kawamoto, Hideaki Takahashi, Sumiko Oishi, Machi Matsumoto, Kasumi
Azuma, Kunihiko Mochizuki, Chiyo Karasawa, Yukino Ohashi, Takayuki
Morozumi, Chiyoe Shimaamegun, Eriko Ura, Hisanori Kimura Not
mentioned but also in the photograph are JC Vice-President Taguchi
Katsuya (Center), Myself (Center-right), and Seminar Assistant
Instructor Tanaka Takeshi (Center-left).
Of interest is that, although the doctors are Japanese, and speak
Japanese, if they were to meet with a CBP® doctor from America, they
could probably communicate a patient’s condition quite effectively
using Harrison terminology. +Shz is pronounced the same in either
language. Should we get a chance to bring some of the students to
America for one of the CBP® annuals, it should prove to be interesting.
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