Introduction

On January 10th, 2005, The Asian Music Therapy Symposium was held in Senzoku Gakuen College of Music in Kawasaki, Japan, as the 80th anniversary of the school foundation. As a partial report on the symposium, I offer here an edited version of the paper I presented at the conference, a Fact Sheet on Music Therapy in Japan, and the discussion paper: "Things Asian Music Therapists should Learn" by Izumi Futamata (an experienced Japanese music therapist and a lecturer at Senzoku).