Prologue: Special Spotlight Issue on Japan

Affiliations

• ¹ Center for Novel and Exploratory Clinical Trials, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan. yyano@jichi.jp.
• ² Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. yyano@jichi.jp.
• ³ Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan.
• ⁴ Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Dokkyo Medical University, Tochigi, Japan.
• ⁵ Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan.
• ⁶ Department of Geriatric and General Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan.
• ⁷ Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan.
• ⁸ Department of Medical Science and Cardiorenal Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan.
• ⁹ Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nephrology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
• ¹⁰ Cardiovascular Center, Steel Memorial Yawata Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan.
• ¹¹ Health Administration Center, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan.
• ¹² Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan.
• ¹³ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Nephrology and Neurology, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan.
• ¹⁴ Tohoku Institute for Management of Blood Pressre, Sendai, Japan.
• ¹⁵ Department of Public Health, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan.
• ¹⁶ Department of Public Health, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan.
• ¹⁷ Department of Hygiene and Public Health, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
• ¹⁸ Tohoku Institute for Management of Blood Pressure, Sendai, Japan.
• ¹⁹ KU Leuven Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ²⁰ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Saga University, Saga, Japan.
• ²¹ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Jichi Medical University School of Medicine, Tochigi, Japan.