The Japanese Society of Gastroenterology

The Japanese Society of Gastroenterology is an educational society involved with the headway of vital investigation and clinical studies on the digestive organs and their contaminations. It is committed to helping the headway and change of gastroenterology and adding to the welfare of humanity. With a past loaded with over 100 years and 26,000 people, the Society is all around saw in the helpful world both here and abroad as one of the operator academic social requests of Japan. The Society was built up in 1898 by Shokichi Nagayo as the Research Group for Gastrointestinal Diseases. Following four years, it shaped into an academic society, and a while later in 1954 was confirmed as a foundation, which set the ground for its institutionary organization. Starting there until the present, remembering the ultimate objective to upgrade and develop its academic studies and to improve the therapeutic treatment of digestive sicknesses, it has had an essential notoriety, which fuses, holding educational social events, conveyed assembled academic papers, developing investigation bundles, et cetera. Beginning with attracting the third World Conference on Gastroenterology to Japan in 1966, it puts weight on all inclusive interest centering in the Asia-Pacific region to present Japan's overwhelming academic disclosures abroad.

Also, to fulfill its focal objective as a philanthropic foundation, it as often as possible holds open addresses all over Japan, where leading specialists and specialists in various fields are invited as teachers to propel the scattering and change of restorative learning among the general populace. Its dedication to national welfare has been exceedingly evaluated in people in general field and, in 1993, it was ensured by the Education Ministry as an exceptional foundation for the progression of open interest, which made prepared for further improvement (now applying for its restoration at customary interims).