Laser Therapy is not the only thing on the move!

Abstract

It is amazing how time flies … by the time your read this, faithful Laser Therapy readers, it will be the end of June, midsummer's (or midwinter's) day will have passed depending on which hemisphere you inhabit, and the year is half-way through. Things other than time don't stand still, which of course includes Laser Therapy, but which also includes the Japan Medical Laser Laboratory (JMLL) where the journal Editorial Team has its heart. The JMLL was first founded by the author in Shizuoka in 1975, where the author was investigating pigmented nevi, their etiology and treatment, in his color clinic. In 1977, the author moved the JMLL to Tokyo as a research and development arm to support the Ohshiro Clinic, which was founded in the same year, and both were housed on the 6th floor of the Kioicho TBR Building, Tokyo, with the Hotel New Otani as a neighbor. With rapid expansion of both the clinic patients and the needs of the JMLL these premises became too small, so in 1994, JMLL and the Ohshiro clinic moved to a new location, a spacious, bright and freshly rebuilt suite of consultation rooms, treatment rooms and offices on the second floor of the Japan Railways Shinanomachi Station Building, with panoramic views over Meiji Jingu Garden and opposite the prestigious Keio University Hospital. This constituted a “return home” for the author, as he is a Keio University School of Medicine Old Boy, and currently a visiting Professor in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Expansion of the Ohshiro Clinic led to relocation of the JMLL to the 4th floor of the Shinsei Kaikan building, just around the corner from Shinaomachi Station. Shinanomachi Rengakan Building JMLL has continued to expand, and has now outgrown the existing premises. Accordingly, JMLL, and the editorial offices of Laser Therapy, have moved since the end of April of this year to a much larger and very elegant premises in the Shinanomachi Rengakan. This is a really interesting comparatively new building of architectural significance (as illustrated) which was built to complement the older buildings of the Keio campus, of which it forms part, and the newer University Hospital. JMLL has many prestigious medically-related neighbors in its new home, such as the International Medical Information Center (IMIC), and the editorial and business offices of several leading Japanese and Iternational medical journals, including the Keio Journal of Medicine, the Japanese Society for Neurochemistry and the Journal of Physiological Sciences and now of course joined by Laser Therapy. The new address for your records is JMLL, 4th Floor, Shinanomachi Rengakan, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0016 Japan. The telephone number remains unchanged at +81-3-5269-1403.