Hospice Palliative Care Japan (HPCJ)

Hospice Palliative Care Japan was initially founded in 1991 as a specialist group to disseminate hospice palliative care units and improve care quality named “The Japanese Association of Hospices and Palliative Care Units”. It was subsequently renamed “HPCJ: Hospice Palliative Care Japan” in 2004, and became a specified non-profit organization in 2007.