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Japan ratified the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) on June 8, 2004. In 2018, the ITC Project in collaboration with researchers at the Japan National Cancer Center and Japan Cancer Society established the ITC Japan (JP) Survey. The ITC Project in collaboration with researchers at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center conducted in 2018, the ITC Japan-Canada Heated Tobacco Products (JCH) Survey. Fieldwork in Japan consisted of both a survey and a urine collection component in the two countries. In both surveys, tobacco users and non-users are adults aged 20 and older.

Survey Overview

Survey Mode: Web Interview
Wave	Survey Dates	Survey Sample Size
JP1	February 3 to March 2, 2018	4,615 (3,288 Smokers, 168 HTP Users, 549 Cigarette-HTP Dual Users, 74 Quitters, and 536 Non-Users) Quitter=quit cigarettes within 2 years, using HTP less than weekly
JP2	December 7, 2018 to January 25, 2019	4,228 (1,810 Smokers, 621 HTP Users, 885 Cigarette-HTP Dual Users, 453 Quitters* and 459 Non-Users) *Quitter=quit cigarettes within 2 years, using HTP less than weekly
JP3	May 16 to June 17, 2020	4482 (1,848 Smokers, 795 HTP Users, 909 Cigarette-HTP Dual Users, and 351Quitters, 579 Non-Users) Quitter=quit cigarettes within 2 years, using HTP less than weekly
JP4	July 2 to August 23 2021	4,408 (1,780 Smokers, 325 HTP Users, 863 Cigarette-HTP Dual Users, 325 Quitters* and 643 Non-Users) *Quitter=quit cigarettes within 2 years, using HTP less than weekly
JCH - JP	November 14, 2018 to January 31, 2019	368 (75 Smokers, 140 HTP Users, 78 Cigarette-HTP Dual Users, 75 Non-Users)

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Contact Information

Janine Ouimet, Project Manager-Research Associate (ITC Japan Waves 1, 2, and 4 Surveys)
Email: j2ouimet@uwaterloo.ca

Steve Xu, Project Manager-Research Scientist (ITC Japan Wave 3 Survey)
Email: s4xu@uwaterloo.ca

Thomas Agar, Project Manager-Research Associate (JCH)
Email: tkagar@uwaterloo.ca

Anne C.K. Quah, Managing Director and Senior Research Scientist
Email: ackquah@uwaterloo.ca

Takahiro Tabuchi, Co-Principal Investigator (ITC Japan Wave 4 Survey)
Email: tabuti-ta@mc.pref.osaka.jp

Kota Katanoda, Co-Principal Investigator (ITC Japan Wave 4 Survey)
Email: kkatanod@ncc.go.jp

Itsuro Yoshimi, Former Co-Principal Investigator (ITC Japan Waves 1-3 Surveys)
Email: iyoshimi@ncc.go.jp

Yumiko Mochizuki-Kobayashi, Former Co-Principal Investigator (ITC Japan Wave 3 Survey)
Email: mochizuki@jcancer.jp

Country Team

Yumiko Mochizuki-Kobayashi (Past Investigators)

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