title: [Consideration of the achievements of successive presidents of the Japan Pharmaceutical Association in the post-war Showa period--their thoughts and steps for establishing practice rights].
abstract: The system of separating the dispensing and prescribing of drugs was legally established in 1956 on the recommendation of the American Pharmaceutical Association mission to Japan in 1949. However, serious disagreements between medical and pharmaceutical practitioners impeded implementation of the system, and the separation practice was not initiated until 1975 when the Japan Pharmaceutical Association and the Japan Medical Association established friendly relations. The system finally took root in the 1990s, and the Japan Pharmaceutical Association has since continued to further improve the system.
authors: The Japanese Society for History of Pharmacy.
authors: Takashi
authors: T
authors: Nishikawa
mesh_terms: D033161:Government Regulation; D000077406:History of Pharmacy; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D011364:Professional Practice / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000266:history*