Language

Only English articles can be accepted. Authors with non-English-speaking background should ask for help from colleagues who are familiar with scientific English.
Please write your text in clear and grammatically correct English (Both American and British usage can be accepted, but not a mixture of both). Authors should conform to the style of APA Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition and the specific instructions listed below.
Author with non-English-speaking background should undergo the proofreading by native speaker of English and submit the certificate of proofreading with manuscripts through an electronic contribution system.

Ethics

The authors must indicate and record whether the procedures follow the ethical standards of the Declaration of Helsinki exactly or not. Also, the design of special scientific research in human diseases or animal experiments should be approved by the ethics committee of the institution or comply with guidelines on animal protection and the ethical code currently applied in the country of origin. This must be stated at an appropriate point in the article.

Patient details
Unless otherwise expressly agreed in writing by the patients, authors should remove the personal information of patients (or close relatives if applicable) from any part in the article including every illustration and supplement material before submission.

Conflict of Interest
All authors are responsible for the disclosure of any actual or potential conflict of interest which might have influenced their researches including any financial, personal and other relationships with individuals or organizations within three years from the time to submit their works. Authors are required to mention about the conflict of interest at the end of their paper, before the acknowledgement or references. See also http://www.elsevier.com/conflictsofinterest.

Copyright

The copyright of the paper published (including the moral rights and property rights of the author) belong to an author. The author shall assign JAOT the right to copy, reproduce, translate, adapt and summarize the published article and/or the right to give permission for the third party to reprint the article to make use of them for JAOT’s public services.
Linking to the J-STAGE’s website (https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/asiajot) is advisable in the case of publishing your own paper to an individual website of the author or the website of the corporate or association which the author belongs, the website of the granting agency funding research fund, an archive of non-commercial electronic thesis, and the repository of association. Please contact JAOT if you want to post the PDF file itself.
Stipulating the sources (including the journal title, the number of the volume and the page which the article was posted) is necessary for publication.