Message for IBRC2026 State University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Nicolaie Testimitanu" Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. Prof. (Taki) Takizawa, Shigeo, (Founder / Inventor)

Dear colleagues!

It is my great pleasure to announce "Enhancing International Activities and Hosting Conferences" as Conference President.

Last year, we applied to the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science's Core-to-Core Program to expand our global activities to extend healthy lifespans and overcome disabilities. We were unsuccessful.

The application was aimed at establishing an international base of operations, and we thought it would be difficult for something like ours that was already organized. The result was as we thought.

However, after the application deadline, we received a call from Dr. Alessandro Giustini, former chairman of the joint research team between the ISPRM and the WHO, who also chaired the ISPRM2019 Long Workshop. We mutually confirmed the need to spread the Takizawa Method and motivative exercise, which are effective in overcoming disabilities at a low cost, worldwide.

We have decided to discuss how we should conduct our activities going forward.

Therefore, we will discuss this at this year's conference, IBRC2026. This year's conference will be held on April 25th. We appreciate your participation via Zoom.

ZOOM information will be provided at a later date.

Next year's event will be held on April 24, 2027 at Keio University. Next year's event will provide participants with the devices used to build the evaluation system and wooden tools. We will also disclose the wooden construction method. Please let us know your intentions at this year's meeting.

We look forward to your participation.