1The coordination of the Japan Clinical Otological Society :

from the Oto-microsurgery Forum (1961), the Japan Otological Society of Hallucinations (1973), the Clinical Otological Society (1973) and the Japan Clinical Otological Society (1978) to the integration of the Japan Otological Society (1991).

At the 61st Annual Meeting of the Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Society of Japan in 1960 (Chairman Masanori Morimoto: Niigata City), renowned otologic surgery specialists such as Zollner (Freiburg University), R. Maspetiol (Paris University), and GE. Shambough Jr. (Northwestern University) were invited to give lectures. "Tympanoplasy" was performed as a symposium (Chair: Masanori Morimoto ). Shuji Goto (Nagoya University), Shigeo Takahara (Okayama University), Toshiro Goto (Nagasaki University), and Yoshiro Yamada (Tokyo Police Hospital) gave nominated lectures on the new flow from conventional radical mastoidectomy to tympanoplasty. In the following year, a discussion on tympanoplasty was held at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Society of Japan in Nagasaki City (Chair of Goto Toshiro: Nagasaki City). After the end of the meeting, a council was gathered to discuss tympanoplasty more freely: (Yasuhiko Hashimoto (Nippon Medical College), Jin Ouchi (Fukushima Medical College), Kaoru Yamamoto (Osaka City), Toshiro Goto (Nagasaki Oh), Shuji Goto (Nagoya University), and Shigeo Takahara (Okayama)), was held. This was the first Oto-microsurgery Forum. In January of the following year, the second Oto-microsurgery Forum was held on the last day of the sixth Japan Audiological Society (Chairman Shigeo Takahara: Okayama City). It was then decided that a study group would be established to officially conduct an annual Oto-microsurgery Workshop (facilitators: Jin Ouchi, Shuji Goto, Toshiro Goto, Shigeo Takahara, Shiro Nakamura, Matsuo Hamaya, Masanori Morimoto, and Kaoru Yamamoto). On January 18, the following year, the Third Oto-microsurgery Round-table Discussion, which comprised 294 participants, was held in Nagoya City under the auspices of Shuji Goto. It was subsequently renamed as the Oto-microsurgery Workshop at the 13th Oto-microsurgery Workshop in 1972.

At the 13th Oto-microsurgery Workshop (Chairman Tomohiko Kamio: Tokyo), a developmental change from the Workshop to the Japan Otological Society was proposed. A motion to reconsider the name of the society was submitted at the Board of Trustees of the Japan Otological Society in the following year. Moreover, as a result of the discussions conducted, the management organization was reorganized (Chairman Ichiro Kirikae, Vice Chairman Shuji Goto), and the name was changed to the Clinical Otological Society. The first Annual Meeting of the Clinical Otological Society (Chairman Tadao Sekiya: Nagoya City) is the first Annual Meeting of the Japan Otological Society. The first the Japan Clinical Otological Society Symposium Proceedings were published as the first volume of the society’s journal, “Clinical Otology Japan.”
Following the first the Japan Clinical Otological Society symposium, the second symposium was held in Osaka City in December 1974 under Chairman Naito. A new steering committee was organized at the General Assembly of the Japan Clinical Otological Society (Chairman: Jin Ouchi, Steering Committee Members: Yoshiro Ogura, Atsushi Komatsuzaki, Makoto Sakai, Tetsuya Shitara, Junichi Suzuki, Isao Takimoto, Takashi Tsuiki, Toshi Naito, Yasuya Nomura, Soutaro Funasaka, Yoshio Honda, Yoshihiko Murakami, Naoaki Yanagihara, and Koichi Yamashita). At the sixth annual meeting of the Japan Clinical Otological Society, the name was approved. The meeting was then held annually until the eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Japan Clinical Otological Society. In 1988, the board of directors advanced from a steering committee system to a board of directors’ system.

2Coordination of Ear Research Japan :

From the Cochlea Biochemistry Forum (1961), the Cochlea Biochemistry Forum (1964), Ear Research Japan (1981) to the integration of the Japan Otological Society (1991)

As with the Oto-microsurgery Forum, Yasuji Katsuki (Tokyo Medical and Dental University) gave an invited lecture on the "Neural Mechanism of Hearing" at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Society of Japan in 1960 (Chairman Masanori Morimoto: Niigata City) Ichiro Kirikae (University of Tokyo) gave a lecture titled "Experimental Research on the Pathophysiology of the Cochlear Mechanism." Additionally, the "Biochemical problems of the cochlea" (Norio Shimazono (Biochemistry, Tokyo University) was conducted and examined as a symposium. It was however, the first epoch-making project in Japan on the theme of cochlear biochemistry. Against the background of the excitement of such cochlea research, the Cochlea Biochemistry Forum was inaugurated the following year. In 1962 and 1963, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Research Expenditure: Comprehensive Research "Research on the Ecology of the Cochlear Function" was adopted. Nine Cochlea Biochemistry Forums were further held under the leadership of Fumio Nakamura (Kyoto Prefectural Medical University). The results of this study were published in volume 1 of "Cochlea Biochemistry," which was published as a Cochlea Biochemistry Forum journal.

The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology: In 1964, the Cochlea Biochemistry Forum was renamed as the Japan Cochlea Biochemistry Society. The 10th Workshop was held under chairman Dr. Shoji Goto (Nagoya University), which led Ear Research Japan until the 27th Japan Cochlea Biochemistry Society meeting in 1980. Since 1962, the Steering Committee has reported that at the time, the members of the steering committee included Yoshihiko Terayama (Hokkaido University), Yutaka Kanako (Tohoku University), Yasuya Nomura (Tokyo University ), Tetsuo Ishii (Teikyo University), Yoshihiko Murakami (Nihon University), and Kiichi Sato (Tokyo Medical and Dental University), Yoshiaki Nakai (Osaka Und.), Yasuo Watanabe (Osaka University), Hitoshi Iwai (Kyoto University.), Tamotsu Morimitsu(Kyushu University), and Hitoshi Saito (Kyoto Prefectural Medical University) led by the first and second chairmen of the management committee, Yoshiaki Nakai and Yasuya Nomura, respectively. At the 27th Japan Cochlea Biochemistry Workshop, the transition to Ear Research Japan was approved. The journal was further renamed as "Ear Research Japan" from "Cochlea Biochemistry."
At the 27th Japan Cochlea Biochemistry Workshop, the transition to Ear Research Japan was approved. The head of the steering committee, Yasuya Nomura, renamed the journal as "Ear Research Japan" from "Cochlea Biochemistry." The steering committee members included Katsuhiko Tanaka (Hokkaido University), Tomonori Takasaka (Tohoku University), Yasuya Nomura (The University of Tokyo), Tetsuo Ishii (Teikyo University), Yoshihiko Murakami (Nippon University), Shoji (Medical and Dental University), Fumihisa Hiraide (National Defense Medical University), Akikazu Ito (Nagoya University), Kazuo Makimoto (Kyoto University), Hitoshi Saito (Kyoto Prefectural Medical University), Yasuo Watanabe (Osaka Prefectural Hospital), Hiroaki Miyamoto (Osaka University), Yu Masuda (Okayama University), Tsunehiko Nakajima (Kyushu University) and Ichiro Matsumoto (Miyazaki Medical University). The committee further decided to include the following eight people: Kazutomo Kawamoto (Tohoku University), Kiichi Sato (Aichi Medical University), Yoshihiko Terayama (Hokkaido University), Yoshiaki Nakai (Osaka City University), Osamu Mizukoshi (Kyoto Prefectural Medical University), Hiroshi Miyake (Nagoya University), Tamotsu Morimitsu (Kyushu University) and Hitoshi Saito (Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine). The 28th Ear Research Japan Symposium was held in Nagoya City under Chairman Isao Takimoto (Aichi Medical University). Eleven symposiums were further held until 1991. The number of members also increased from 368 to 923. In 1984, the committee advanced from a steering committee system to a system of board of directors.

3History of the Japan Otological Society :

From the Integration of the Japan Otological Society (1991) to date.

The Japan Clinical Otological Society and Ear Research Japan have been developing independently and simultaneously. However, along with constitutional problems such as the divergence between basic and clinical research, the financial and administrative problems of each academic society have surfaced. Further, a working group of three members from the Japan Clinical Otological Society and the Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Society of Japan has initiated five meetings to reach a basic consensus on the integration of both societies, with eight members from each of these societies participating in the preparatory committee (Chairman: Tetsuya Shitara, Committee Members: Tetsuo Ishii, Jin Kanzaki, Atsushi Komatsuzaki, Makoto Sakai, Kiichi Sato, Toyoji Soda Tomonori Takasaka, Yoshiaki Nakai, Yuichi Nakano, Yasuya Nomura, Iwao Honjo, Toru Matsunaga, Osamu Mizukoshi, Goro Mogi and Isamu Watanabe). It was held five times since the first Preparatory Committee for the establishment of the Japan Otological Society on July 21, 1990, to the fifth Preparatory Committee for the establishment of the Japan Otological Society on September 17, 1991. It was further decided that the integration would be conducted in autumn, 1991, as the Clinical Department of the Japan Otological Society and Ear Research Japan for the first 2 years and make it a 15 board member system with “Otology Japan” as the society journal. The proposal of the Preparatory Committee for the Establishment of the Japan Otological Society was approved by the Joint Council of Ear Research Japan and the Japan Clinical Otological Society on September 17, 1991. An election for a board director was held and the Primary Council organized.
The Japan Otological Society has since developed steadily; it has approximately 3,000 members currently, which makes it the largest related academic society of the Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies of Japan.