Introduction

摘要

On January 10th, 2005, The Asian Music Therapy Symposium was held in Senzoku Gakuen College of Music in Kawasaki, Japan, as the 80th anniversary of the school foundation. As a partial report on the symposium, I offer here an edited version of the paper I presented at the conference, a Fact Sheet on Music Therapy in Japan, and the discussion paper: "Things Asian Music Therapists should Learn" by Izumi Futamata (an experienced Japanese music therapist and a lecturer at Senzoku).