History

Empowerment Science Forum, founded in 1990, aims to realize a society in which people have the ability to make significant contributions and can experience the joy of living. We cooperate with members of the International Society for System Sciences on Health Social Services (SYSTED) and the Japan Health and Welfare Society to engage in many research projects. This cooperation fuses research and practice in regard to health promotion, medical care, welfare, education, government, business, NPO, and urban development. The collaboration also targets theorization of cohort practice, exploring new research methods of the subject parties, community empowerment, and forming the platform foundation by utilizing World Wide Web.

With a large-scale research project from the perspective of lifelong development dynamics, we explore the empowerment science constructed by plasticity, diversity, and holistic measures. Along with the activation of peer empowerment, such as symposiums and study camps, we spread our outcomes worldwide using the two-way World Wide Web.
We also have many foreign students from abroad, and the graduates who have obtained master’s or doctoral degrees continue to play an active part in various fields.

Activities by year are as follows:

1990 Research Public Long-Term Care Insurance, Universal Design, International ComparativeStudy for Health Social System
1991 Research Tobishima Healthy Longevity Study (Regional Cohort Study, ongoing)
Kitakyusyu / Sendai/ Tochigi Rehabilitation System Study
  Inauguration Tokie Anme, appointed as Steering Member of International Society for SYSTED
1994 Publish “Aging in Place with Dignity”
“Child-Rearing and Childcare Environment in a Time of Low Birthrates”
  Development “Home Observation for Measurement of Environment Japanese version (HOME-J)”
  Dissertation Kiuku Om, “Study on the Welfare Policy-Making Process for the Elderly in Korea”
1997 Degree Takayuki Yamamoto, Yoko Shimada, Toshiyuki Kasai, Ryoko Harada, Yuko Sawada, Eiko Suzuki, Akiko Maruyama, Mitsuko Imai, Yuichi Watanabe, and Takashi Shiraogawa, obtained master’s degree
1998 Research Childcare Cohort Study (Panel Cohort Study, ongoing)
International Comparative Study of Social Rehabilitation
  Publish “Health Social Services” and “Care Sciences of Health Social Services”
1999 Dissertation Chiho Shimada, “Measuring Outcome of Health-Social Services for Elderly
Jay, Ou, “Development of Assessment for Child Care Environment Scale in Korea”
2000 Research Elderly and Child Abuse Prevention Research
  Publish “Care Sciences on Aging” and “Empowering Frail Elderly People”
  Development “Development Checklist in Child Care”
“Childcare Environment Checklist”
“Checklist for Child with Difficulties”
“Social Skill Checklist”
2001 Research Establishment of Empowerment Science Study Group
  Publish “Focus Group Interview I: Basic skills” Empowerment Research Society
  Study Camp Introduction of Empowerment Sciences (Lake Hamana)
  Degree Naoko Katakura, Izumi Sato, Yoshikazu Tanaka, and Hideko Nakamura,
obtained master’s degree
2002 Study Camp Expansion of Empowerment Sciences (Dune Nakatajima)
  Degree Etsuko Fuchita, obtained master’s degree, Hisako Arai
2003 Publish “Focus Group Interview II: Practice application”
  Dissertation Kasai Toshiyuki, “Relations between Release Hippocampus Histamines by Enteron Stimulation and Anxiety for Rat”
  Degree Hiroshi Tanaka, Hatsue Sakai, Kayo Ieiri, Katunobu Miyazaki, Tokie Shoji, and Tomoko Takabayashi, obtained master’s degree, Emiko Tanaka
  Study Camp Empowerment of Health and Social Services (Itou)
2004 Publish “Care Sciences for Empowerment”
“Evidence-Based Child Care: Enhance Quality of Care and Environment”
  Development “Question Version of HOME, Index of Child Care Environment (ICCE)”
“ICCE Simple Version”
  Degree Di Zhang, Liu, Gao, obtained master’s degree
  Study Camp International Health and Empowerment Sciences (Lake Hamana)
2005 Research Japan Child Study (Birth Cohort Study)
  Publish “Professional Skills of Community Empowerment”
  Development “Interaction Rating Scale (IRS)”
  Dissertation Yuichi Watanabe, “Community Empowerment”
Naoko Katakura, “Development of Education Program for People with Mental Health Problems”
  Study Camp Empowerment with Party in Charge (Kiyose)
2006 Inauguration International developed care:Empowerment Science Lab in University of Tsukuba
  Development “Social Skills Scale SSS” and “Interaction Rating Scale between Children (IRSC)”
  Dissertation Eiko Suzuki, Factors Affecting Rapid Turnover of Novice Nurses in University Hospitals”
  Degree Ryoji Shinohara, Yuka Sugisawa, Sumio Ito, and Junko Kobayashi, obtained master’s degree, Shiori Otsuki
  Study Camp Community Empowerment (Izu)
2007 Research Childcare Environment Evaluation
  Inauguration Tokie Anme appointed as Director-General Assistant of Cohort Study
  Publish “Empowerment for Healthy Longevity” and “Evidence-Based Child Care: Basic Skills”
  Development “Interaction Rating Scale Advanced (IRSA)”
  Study Camp Support of Empowerment (Mt. Tsukuba)
2008 Publish “Culture, Care and Community Empowerment”
“Evidence-Based Child Care: Practice Application”
  Development “Interaction Rating Scale Advanced Short Form (IRSA-Brief)”
  Degree Emiko Tanaka, Kozomu Saito, Yuko Takashita, and Akiko Osono, obtained master’s degree
  Study Camp Empowerment Evaluation (Lake Kawaguchi)
2009 Research Empowerment and Management, Takahashi Yusuke, “Excellent Paper Award”、Japan Education and Psychology Conference
  Inauguration Tokie Anme, Japanese Association of Educational Psychology Award
Yuka Sugisawa and Lian Tong appointed as JST Special Research Fellow
  Publish “Evidence-Based Empowerment for Child and Child Care”
“Early Detection and Support for the Children with Difficulties“
  Degree Taeko Watanabe and Yoko Onda, obtained master’s degree
  Study Camp Empowerment and Professional Skills (Oarai)
2010 Research Empowerment of Childcare Society
Study of WEB Support System for Child Wood Education Study, Social Brain Study
International Comparative Cohort Study for Development Aimed at Child
Growth and Childcare Empowerment
  Inauguration Tokie Anme appointed as Steer of Japan Society of Children
Councilor of Japanese Nursing Science Society
  Publish “Brain Science for Children,” “What is the Motivation of Working?”
”Focus Group Interview III: Thesis and Report”
”Advanced Initiatives in Inter-Professional Education”
  Dissertation Ryoji Shinohara, “Parent’s Praise and Child’s Social Development”
Yuka Sugisawa, “Implications of Child Social Competence Development”
Yuko Sawada, “Social Interaction and Health Decline in Community-Dwelling Elderly”
  Degree Yukiko Mochizuki and Yuri Kawashima, obtained master’s degree
  Study Camp Enhance Interdisciplinary Teamwork Among Various Professions (Lake Biwa)
2011 Research Organized International Systems Sciences for Health Social Services 2011 (SYSTED11)
Empowerment Study for Disaster Region
Study of Woody Environment Effect
Social Competence Evaluation Study for High-Functioning Autism
Research on the Role of Social Welfare Corporation
Childcare Study for Children with Disabilities
Study on Evaluation of the Environment of Foster Home
  Inauguration Tokie Anme appointed as President of Japan Health and Welfare Society
Ryoji Shinohara, Yuka Sugisawa, and Yuko Sawada appointed as Research Fellow
Amarsanaa Gan-Yadam appointed as Special Research Fellow for JST
  Publish “Healthy longevity Study with Community Empowerment Skills”
  Dissertation Lian Tong, “Two Cohort Studies Predicting Preschooler’s Social Competence Development from Maternal Parenting Behavior and Attitude”
Monika Wilinska, “Spaces of (Non)Ageing: A Discursive Study of Inequalities We Live By”
Etsuko Fuchita, “A proposal and Analysis of Practice Guidelines for Nursing Home Care of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia”
  Degree Mayumi Namba, obtained master’s degree
  Study Camp SYSTED Study Camp: Enhance Health-Social System Sciences (Hakone)
Children with Disabilities Joint Childcare Study Camp: Toward the Expansion of Joint Childcare (Mt. Tsukuba)
Study Camp: Empathy and Symbiosis (Tama)
2012 Conference Organized the 9th Annual Meeting of Japan Society of Children
  Research Research on the Role of Welfare Corporation for Community Empowerment JOSO Happy Research
  Inauguration Lian Tong appointed as Research Fellow
Emiko Tanaka appointed as the Special Research Fellow of JST
  Publish “Psychology of Gender Differences,” “Parenting,” and “Enhance Partnership between Childcare Professionals and Parents”
  Dissertation Emiko Tanaka, “Early Parenting Behavior and Child Care in Social Development During Preschool Years: Longitudinal Perspective”
Kentaro Morita, “Oral Health and Mortality: Longitudinal Perspective”
Akiko Maruyama, “Implications of Burnout for Mothers with Preschool Children”
  Degree Misako Matsumoto and Chihiro Sugita, obtained master’s degree
  Study Camp Empathy and Symbiosis II (Lake Yamanaka)
2013 Research International Comparative Cohort Study for Multi-Generational Community Empowerment Social Competence Evaluation Study for Low-Functioning Autism
  Inauguration Tokie Anme appointed as the President of International Society for Systems Sciences for Health Social Service (SYSTED)
Tokie Anme awarded International Environmental and Scientific Society (Eco-Science) Award
Emiko Tanaka, Taeko Watanabe, Toshiyuki Kasai, and Junko Kobayashi
appointed as Research Fellow
  Publish “Introduction for Empowerment Sciences”
  Dissertation Taeko Watanabe, “Development of a Comprehensive Childcare Record System Using Internet Documentary Information”
Amarsanaa Gan-Yadam, “Community Empowerment in Mongolia”
Etsuko Tomisaki, “Child Sleep and Social Competence Development”
  Study Camp Empathy and Symbiosis Power-Up (Tsukuba)
2014 Research Branding Study for Multi-Generational Community Empowerment
Emiko Tanaka, Best Presentation Award, Japanese Society of Public Health, Japan Health and Welfare Society
Misako Matsumoto, Outstanding Publication Award, Japan Health and Welfare Society
Etsuko Tomisaki appointed as Research Fellow
Tokie Anme appointed as the Operation evaluator of Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society (RISTEX), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  Publish “Self Empowerment, Social Empowerment, System Empowerment”
“Health and Welfare Study: Construction and Practice of the person concerned-based system science”
“Empower Skills for Child Care Professionals:Application”
“A night Child Care and Children”
  Dissertation Yukiko Mochizuki, “Development of abuse checklist :
Focus on early detection, early support in child care support organization”
Bailiang Wu, “A study of social competence applied in China: a review and a development of assessment with a sample of university students”
  Degree Shiori Arioka, Chunyan Jin, Yixin Sun, Zhu Zhu obtained master’s degree
  Study Camp Study with Health and Longevity Practice (Tobishima)
2015 Research International Comparative Study for Multi-Generational Community Empowerment
  Inauguration Watanabe Kumi, Best Presentation Award, Japan Health and Welfare Society
Bailiang Wu appointed as Research Fellow
Tokie Anme appointed as the Collaborate Professor of LUND Unitiversity in Sweden
  Publish 「New Empowerment Models on Practical Strategies for Wellbeing,
Nova science Publications」
「Parent-Child Interactions and Child Social Competence:
Longitudinal Evidence Using the Interaction Rationg Scale(IRS),
Nova Science Publications」
  Degree Watanabe Kumi,WenCan Chen obtained master’s degree
  Study Camp Lifelong Development and Empowerment(Tsukuba)
2016 Research Five Senses Stimulation Study for Multi-Generational Community Empowerment
Robot Practice Research for empowerment efficacy
Future Empowerment Cafe
Watanabe Kumi, Best Presentation Award, Japanese Society of Public Health
  Degree Yuri Nurdiantami 、Keiko Kato、Ayaka Kamata、Miki Sakata、Hanae Ito、Ouyang Lingling、Yashu Yang、Meiryandah Hilda
  Study Campus Realization of Incluship Society (Tsukuba)
2017 Research Multi-generation community empowerment research
Tanaka Shoko awarded Most Excellent Publish Award
Japan Public Health Conference
  Degree Junyu Jiang、Jingying Sun、 He Zhao、Huijuan Yu、 Sano Chihiro
  Study Campus teamwork and empowerment (Tsukuba)
2018 Research Empowerment Research and Education Forum
Cohort Research Consortium
Comprehensive Community Empowerment Research
Future Empowerment Cafe
  Degree Tomomi Toshino、Aya Tsubota、Chen Wei、Haihan Liu
  Dissertation Hiromi Arakawa, “Research of the effectiveness of the nursing experience study program for cognitive impairment supporters on their willingness of activities”
Chunyan Jin, “Associations between physical activity, social interaction, and cognitive impairment among elderly individuals in China”
  Study Campus teamwork and empowerment (kitakyushu, Tokyo Campus)
2019 Research Mirai Empowerment Cafe
Regional Comprehensive Empowerment Research
Empowerment Childcare Research Forum
Childcare Power Up Research Meeting
East Asia Child Development Forum
International IRS Training Seminar
Tanaka Emiko, Best award, Japanese Society of Human Science of Health-social services
  Publish “Creating Empowerment in Community: Theory and Practice from an International Perspective”
“Interactive Community Empowerment program and Adaptation of ICT for Health Promotion: Life Course Approch with Longitudinal Cohort Study”
“Open children’s future, Empowerment science”
  Dissertation Watanabe Kumi, “The effects of social relationships on Instrumental Activities of Daily living and mortality among Japanese community dwelling older adults”
  Degree Chen Panpan, Tao Xiaoyue, Cui Xiao
  Study Camp Teamwork and Empowerment (University of Tsukuba)
2020 Research Multi-generation community empowerment research
  Publish

“A theory of mind as an implication of empowerment”
“Empowerment Based Co-creative Action Research Towards A World of Possibilities for Sustainable Society”
“Co-created action research based on empowerment theory and technology: towards a sustainable society”
“Empowerment Based Co-Creative Action Research”

  Degree

Li Xiang, Chen xiaoyu, Boutefnouchet Sana

  Study Campus

Let’s talk with each other for the present and the future! -To regain the smile of the profession! –

2021 Research

Special Interview – Academic Milestones – The Power of Learning

Survival Science and Mirai Empowerment Cafe

  Publish

“Empowerment Based Co-Creative Action Research”
“The Empowerment Picture Book”
“The Magic of Empowerment’, an empacomic for primary school children”
“Empowerment comic for junior and senior high school students: ‘The secret to energising people: become an empowerment professional”
“Empowerment stories”
“The Empowerment Song”
“Childcare Power Up Course, Practical”

  Dissertation

Ammara Ajmal:Impact of Physicians’ Commitment on Performance in Public Health Sector, Pakistan

  Degree Alpona Afsari Banu, Zhang Jinrui
  Study Campus Discussing and sharing ideas on how to better interact with COIVD-19 ~ Toward the creation of a safe and secure community ~
2022 Research

Special Interview – Academic Milestones – The Power of Learning

Survival Science and Mirai Empowerment Cafe

  Publish

“Empowerment Magic”
“Evidence based Child Care”
“Let’s make a World of Possibilities”
“Empowerment Comic”
“Picture book (Explore the adventure of empowerment for the future!)”

  Dissertation

Jiao Dandan: Multimorbidity and Functional limitation in the Community-dwelling Older Adults: Moderating Mechanism of Social Relationships

  Degree

Wang Yanlin, Qian Meiling

  Study Campus

“Let’s regain our daily lives through empowerment ~ Create a vibrant community ~

2023 Research

Special Interview – Academic Milestones – The Power of Learning

Survival Science and Mirai Empowerment Cafe

  Dissertation

Zhu Zhu: The relationship between parental physical discipline and children’s self-control: Evidence from Japanese and Chinese preschool sample

Munenori Matsumoto: Development of a subjective well-being scale for caregivers of children with disabilities at home and examination of its reliability and validity

  Degree

Smarika Shrestha

  Study Campus

“Intergenerational transmission of empowerment”