A message from the President of the Japanese Society of Allergology

It is a great honor for me to serve as the President of Japanese Society of Allergology (JSA) for 2 more years from October 2024. JSA was founded in the year of 1952, and JSA has a total of approximately 12,792 members as the largest National Allergy Society in the world. Those JSA members uniquely include highly active Internists, Pediatricians, Dermatologists, ENT doctors, Ophthalmologists, and Basic scientists. 
In 1987, JSA started to certify the Allergy Board as subspecialty to the doctors in the specialties, and we have now 5161 allergy specialists. 
We had held the World Allergy Congress (WAC) (formerly the International Congress of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, ICACI) for 3 times in Japan. Those were the events in the year of 1973 (Tokyo), 1991 (Kyoto) and 2020 (Kyoto and Web). 
We plan to hold a joint meeting among JSA, WAO and APAPARI in 2026 for the revenge of 2020 meeting. The venue will be in Kyoto again and the term is 15th to 18th October in 2026.
Please mark your calendar, and we welcome you in Kyoto.
We have improved our English Web site to have better international communication. Please visit our English Web including JSA’s official open access journal of “Allergology International”. Current impact factor is 6.2. We welcome the submission of your fruits of basic and clinical research to the journal.

Motohiro Ebisawa, MD, PhD
President