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    Public Attitudes toward COVID-19 Vaccinations before Dawn in Japan: Ethics and Future Perspectives

    Improving public understanding and acceptance are critical for promoting coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination. However, how to promote COVID-19 vaccine programs remains controversial due to various ethical issue...

    Haruka Nakada, Kyoko Takashima, Yuichi Maru, Tsunakuni Ikka in Asian Bioethics Review (2022)

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    A systematic approach to the disclosure of genomic findings in clinical practice and research: a proposed framework with colored matrix and decision-making pathways

    Whether and how to disclose genomic findings obtained in the course of genomic clinical practice and medical research has been a controversial global bioethical issue over the past two decades. Although severa...

    Kenji Matsui, Keiichiro Yamamoto, Shimon Tashiro, Tomohide Ibuki in BMC Medical Ethics (2021)

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    A Proposed Model of Core Competencies for Research Ethics Consultants

    Research ethics consultation services (RECS), which function as an advisory service to facilitate the resolution of complex ethical issues in clinical research, have been proliferating over the last decade. Ho...

    Kenji Matsui, Yusuke Inoue, Hiroaki Yanagawa, Tadao Takano in Asian Bioethics Review (2021)

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    An educational workshop designed for research ethics consultants to educate investigators on ethical considerations

    The role of research ethics consultants in biomedical research has increased to the point that they have an advisory capacity at all research institutes. For such professionals, we have established an educatio...

    Hiroaki Yanagawa, Masayuki Chuma in International Journal of Ethics Education (2021)

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    Enhancing Research Quality with Updated and Controversial Ethical Issues: Summary and Recommendations

    Jaranit Kaewkungwal, Pornpimon Adams, Jetsumon Sattabongkot in Asian Bioethics Review (2017)

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    Ethical challenges for the design and conduct of mega-biobanking from Great East Japan Earthquake victims

    Amid continuing social unrest from the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent Fukushima nuclear accident of 2011, the Japanese government announced plans for a major biobanking project in the disaster-stri...

    Kenji Matsui, Shimon Tashiro in BMC Medical Ethics (2014)

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    Attitudes towards transfers of human tissue samples across borders: An international survey of researchers and policy makers in five countries

    Sharing of tissue samples for research and disease surveillance purposes has become increasingly important. While it is clear that this is an area of intense, international controversy, there is an absence of ...

    **nqing Zhang, Kenji Matsui, Benjamin Krohmal, Alaa Abou Zeid in BMC Medical Ethics (2010)