Minamino, Hiroto
Katsushima, Masao
Torii, Mie
Yamamoto, Wataru
Fujita, Yoshihito
Ikeda, Kaori
Okamura, Emi
Murakami, Kosaku
Watanabe, Ryu
Murata, Koichi
Ito, Hiromu
Tanaka, Masao
Arai, Hidenori
Matsuda, Shuichi
Morinobu, Akio
Inagaki, Nobuya
Hashimoto, Motomu
Article History
Received: 8 July 2021
Accepted: 30 September 2021
First Online: 14 October 2021
Competing interests
: K.M. (Murata), and M.T. (Tanaka) are members of a department financially supported by Nagahama City, Shiga, Japan, Toyooka City, Hyogo, Japan and five pharmaceutical companies (Tanabe-Mitsubishi, Chugai, UCB Japan, Ayumi and Asahi-Kasei). R.W. receives speaker’s fee from Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma, Pfizer, Sanofi, AbbVie, Asahi Kasei, Eisai, Eli Lilly, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Janssen. H.I. receives a research grant and/or speaker fee from Bristol-Myers, Kyocera, and Asahi-Kasei. M.T. (Tanaka) has received research grants and/or speaker fees from AbbVie GK, Asahi Kasei Pharma Corp., Astellas Pharma Inc., Ayumi Pharmaceutical Corp., Bristol-Myers Squibb, Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Eisai Co., Ltd., Eli Lilly Japan K.K., Pfizer Inc., UCB Japan Co., Ltd., Janssen Pharmaceutical K.K., Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp., Novartis Pharma K.K., Taisho Pharma Co., Ltd. S.M. receives grants and/or speaker fees from Daiichi Sankyo, Asahi-Kasei, Chugai, Ayumi, and Tanabe Mitsubishi. A.M. receives speaking fees and/or research grants from Eli Lilly Japan K.K., Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Pfizer Inc., UCB Japan, AbbVie G.K., Asahi Kasei Pharma and Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. M.H. receives grants and /or speaker fees from Bristol-Meyers, Eisa, Eli Lilly, Novartis Pharma, and Tanabe Mitsubishi. H.M., M.K., M.T.(Torii), W.Y., Y.F., K.I., E.O., K.M.(Murakami), K.M. (Murata), H.A., and N.I. declare no conflicts of interest. The sponsors had no role in the design of the study, the collection or analysis of the data, the writing of the manuscript, or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. The authors, their immediate families, and any research foundations with which they are affiliated have not received any financial payments or other benefits from any commercial entity related to the subject of this article.