Date: March 29, 2008 (Sat) at 14：00〜16：00
Place：Big Hall at Kumamoto Civic Hall
Chairpersons (Society of Forest Medicine)
Qing Li, MD, PhD (Nippon Medical School, qing-li@nms.ac.jp)
Yoshifumi Miyazaki, Prof, PhD (Chiba University, ymiyazaki@faculty.chiba-u.jp)

1. Keynote lecture 1
Forests and human health - global trends in research and practice-
Hannu Raitio, Prof, PhD (Finnish Forest Research Institute, Finland)

2. Keynote lecture 2
Trends in research on the therapeutic effects of forest use in Korea
Won Sop Shin, Prof, PhD (Chungbuk National University, Korea)

3. Trends in research on forest bathing trips in Japan
1) Fields studying the therapeutic effects of forest and related topics
Hideki Hirano, PhD (Forest Agency of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan)

2) The forest environment and subjective evaluation of a forest bathing trip
Takahide Kagawa, MS (Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute)

3) The physiological effects of Shinrin-yoku (taking in the atmosphere of the forest)
Yuko Tsunetsugu, PhD (Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute)
Bum-Jin Park, PhD and Yoshifumi Miyazaki, Prof., PhD (Chiba University)

4) The effects of forest bathing trips on human immune function
Qing Li, MD, PhD (Nippon Medical School)