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KMID : 1172020080090020035
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Journal of Korean Bioethics Association
2008 Volume.9 No. 2 p.35 ~ p.47
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Research Ethics in Japan: Institutions’ responses to cases of noncompliance with research ethics guidelines
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MIYAGAWA Takuya
Kim Ock-Joo
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Abstract
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This paper deals with research ethics in Japan with special reference to institutions’ responses to cases of non-compliance with research ethics guidelines. Facing advent of new biotechnology like genetics engineering and artificial reproduction in 1980s, Japanese society chose to handle ethical, legal and social challenges brought by these new biotechnology with implementing ethics guidelines rather than with enactment of laws. Since 2000, several scandals related to research misconducts or noncompliance with research ethics guidelines have occurred in such eminent Japanese research institutes as the Institute of Medical Sciences Tokyo University, RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research) and College of Medicine Tokyo University. After a series of investigation by internal and external committees, these institutes rebuilt a research ethics system. This includes new review system, a new policy to mandate research ethics education and a routine auditing system to ensure research ethics. Taking lessons from the scandals, Japanese institutions have been promoting research ethics not to repeat their past.
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KEYWORD
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research ethics in Japan, ethics guidelines on clinical research, Noncompliance, Japanese research institutes
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