Esaki, Yuichi http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5165-6171
Obayashi, Kenji
Saeki, Keigo
Fujita, Kiyoshi
Iwata, Nakao http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3189-6076
Kitajima, Tsuyoshi
Article History
Received: 28 April 2021
Revised: 24 September 2021
Accepted: 30 September 2021
First Online: 13 October 2021
Competing interests
: The authors report no conflicts of interest related to this research. YE has received manuscript fees from Dainippon Sumitomo. KO and KS has received a research grant from YKK AP Inc.; Ushio Inc.; Tokyo Electric Power Company; EnviroLife Research Institute Co., Ltd.; Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd; LIXIL Corp.; and KYOCERA Corp. KF has received speaker’s honoraria from Dainippon Sumitomo, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen, Yoshitomi, Otsuka, Meiji, Shionogi, Novartis, and Kracie. NI has received speaker’s honoraria from Astellas, Dainippon Sumitomo, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen, Yoshitomi, Otsuka, Meiji, Shionogi, Novartis, and Pfizer and has had research grants from GlaxoSmithKline, Meiji, Otsuka, Mitsubishi Tanabe, Dainippon Sumitomo, Daiichisankyo, and Eisai. TK has received speaker’s honoraria from Eisai, Mitsubishi Tanabe, Otsuka, Takeda, Eli Lilly, MSD, Meiji, Yoshitomi, Fukuda, Dainippon Sumitomo, Shionogi, and Novo Nordisk and has received a research grant from Eisai, MSD, and Takeda.