I am honored to continue serving as President for the 23rd and 24th terms. I wish to express my deepest respect to all members who have steadfastly supported our Society to this day, and I look forward to walking together with you as we advance toward the 75th and 80th anniversary milestones of our distinguished society.
The Japanese Society of Nutrition and Dietetics (JSND) has developed with the mission of contributing to “the happiness and health of all people,” grounded in the science of nutrition. Our activities span a broad spectrum—from disease prevention, health promotion, and lifestyle improvement to community development, food environment design, food systems, human resource development, and even global nutrition challenges. In contemporary society, increasingly complex and multilayered issues have emerged, including cultural diversity, health disparities, the double burden of malnutrition, food safety, and the intersection of environment and nutrition. By integrating scientific evidence with practice-based fields, nutrition science is evolving into an academic discipline capable of generating stronger societal impact.
JSND is a unique society in Japan where professionals from all nutrition-related fields—hospitals, communities, public health, schools, welfare, industry, and research institutions—come together. Our distinctive strength lies in providing an academic foundation where “practice settings” and “research environments” collaborate seamlessly, allowing practical challenges to be transformed into research, and research findings to be returned to practice. This unparalleled structure is the driving force that will carry the field of practical nutrition into the future.
Our Society has set a long-term vision: the establishment of practical nutrition as an academic discipline. Under the mid-term objective of strengthening research accumulation and dissemination through collaboration between practical nutrition settings and universities/research institutions, we have progressed steadily. To achieve these goals, we will continue the initiatives from the previous term—namely, “expansion of research and practice domains”—and, in the 23rd and 24th terms, advance activities focusing on the revitalization of young members, strengthening of branch collaboration, and deeper partnerships with related academic societies and organizations.
Takayoshi Tsukahara