こんにちは、みなさんこんにちは。I'm Goro Koto from Japan Advocacy Network for Drug Policy.I represent everybody and international harm reduction committee to choose my abstract.I will be very honored to be here.And also this is my very first time that my English is translated into French.So for people who are hearing from in French,if you hear something weird, it's my bad English.It's not the interpreters, you know.So don't play on them and play on me.And I really appreciate your hard work for the interpreters.Thank you very much.So I'd like to present about challenge of harm reduction advocacy in Japan social values of morality.So I briefly start from sharing the situation in my country.So we have 130 million population and 98% of us are Japanese.So we are very homogeneous country.And we have a very strict punitive drug prohibition.So drug use is crime, not health issues.And government says once you use drugs, you ruin your life.And people believe punitive punishment works.And also people surrender to police to quit using drugs.And they don't go to hospitals because the doctors report their patients to the police.And we have some recovery program of N.A.N.A. is very huge in Japan.So that may be the only one N.A.And some T.C. 12 step self-help group T.C.And some hospitals do CBT programs.We are because hospitals report to the police.And so under this circumstance, there is some very limited number of people who said this is something wrong.So we should do something think about drug policy reform.So Japan Advocacy Network for Drug Policy is obviously for the Advocacy Network for drug policy reform.It was established in November 2015.And that is only three members including me.And I'm the only one paid part-time staff just working one point days a week.So I come here six days here.So which means I'm working for one month.And so in the last past year, I joined CND.I joined Angus.And I also joined Asian Fellowship Program conducted by Lidies in London.And I got a very good course there, of course.And received a very fantastic mentoring by Edward Fox.I really appreciate him.And I also joined trainers in Bali conducted by IDPC.It's a drug policy reform in Asia.And I met a lot of fantastic Asian activists there.And personally back to 2004 and five,I was a student of Columbia University School of Social Work.And I was very lucky to have a chance of being doing internship at Harm Induction Coalition.In those days, Mr. Alan Creole was executive director.And without this internship, I wouldn't be standing here today.And I'm also really appreciate the current Harm Induction Coalition, of course.And everybody who support our activities.So I'll go back to my presentation.So in the past year, we did kind of informal casual meetings,workshops, lectures on Harm Induction and Decriminalization.And we have various participants, like government officials,people who use drugs, family members, health care project,professionals, legal professionals, general citizens.And we did a lot of discussions and we got a lot of feedback.And so when we think what we do next, what we make strategy,we kind of review all the feedbacks and we analyze.And so what we discussed is like this.So I don't know if I'm good at explaining this.But so we have, in our culture, we have a very strong moral standard.So society is prioritized much more over individuals.And social morality is much more prioritized over human rights.So I hardly learned about human rights in school,but we learn a lot about social morality.And so what is good, what is bad in terms of social morality.So it helps us to develop stigma and discrimination against peoplewho use illicit drugs and people living with HIV, AIDS, etc.And because they broke laws, I mean, especially people who use illicit drugs in this sense.And then so they are bad guys and they themselves also take,this is very bad and they don't take our human rights at this regard.They even have any idea of their human rights.I mean that it's very happen.Because we don't learn about human rights.We don't have the identification of what is our human rights, something like this.So and in the society, we have very small number of people who use drugs.Drugs use in the past year is 0.1% and small number of people who share needles.ID use among people with HIV and AIDS is 0.5%.And we have good hepatitis C treatment.So which is available, that is very good.But we don't have any like a ghetto, biological, geographical ghetto.So poverty is, we have a big problem of poverty.But there is no place that syringes and needles are discarded.And we don't use, many people, I mean, we don't use heroin.So methamphetamine is the most popular drugs in my country.So in this sense, people easily to say,we have no need of OST, no need of NSP,no need of injection consumption room,or no need of overdose prevention for opioids.But so when we talk about harm reduction,okay, so let's think about what is harm in our society.And people easily say, let's crime,because they drug people who use drugs, broke the law.So reduction means punishment or exclusion.And they said evidence-based.Yes, punishment works in our countrythat people saying.And cost effectiveness, yes, it's okay.But it's worthwhile to put that money and to exclude,you know, criminals from the society.So there's like very typical, like people saying,you know, harm reduction is no need of harm reduction.Or okay, I like harm reduction to make drug free world come true.So it's also wrong.And so we say,do we need harm reduction in Japan?And of course it is, we need it,because,you know, our policy really,you know, ruining the life of people who use drugsand their families, their partners, their loved ones.And it also impacts a lot internationally.For example, our country decided to give35 million dollars to Philippinesto support their drug rehabilitation that it says,but it may be used for, we are afraid,that it may be used for building upcompulsory treatment center.So we really need harm reductionbecause the small number of people who use drugs,but because the strong stigmaand I can hardly find anybody who sayI'm harm reductionist in my country.So our challenge is design harm reductionwithout major harm reduction programs.So we never have any experience of OSD,NSP consumption room in my country.So people don't see like somebody who maintainstheir health because of OSDor like I had because of NSPV,I can avoid from, you know, infectionor something like that.We have never seen these people.But internationally,when it comes to harm reduction programs,it's basically OSD,NSP consumption roomand overdose prevention.So it's very hard to saypeople easily switch just harm reductionfrom programs just like them.So we don't need them,which means we don't need harm reduction.So we need to fight for themso of course we need to advocate a lot in my country domestically.So what we did last year is becauseof the limited kind of resources we doand first of all we have no resources writtenin Japanese harm reduction decriminalizationbecause again 98% of people are Japanese.They basically don't use English.So resources materials are in Japanesewritten by Japanese people who never experienced harm reduction.So of course we cannot expect that we have some materialsin Japanese related to harm reduction decriminalization.So we picked up many,not some basic materialsand we translated into Japanese.So that is what we could do so far.But so because just one yearwe spent at this moment.So now we are going to our next step.So we are going to create an education toolfrom this translation.We disseminate this informationusing Facebook or SNSblogs websites.And first of allI'd really like to find somebodywho can work togetherbecause I'm just kind of expectingif I can see somebody from Japanin this conference who can work with uswho are harm reductionistswho say I'm harm reductionist.Is there anybody here?Of course not surprising.But stillI feel very excitedto deal with this challengebecause we have a lot we can doand I'm really excited.And because I feel very motivatedand encouraged by all of you hereI know how muchdifficulties or tough situationyou have been dealt with so farso I can learn a lot from all of youso I really really appreciateyou will be with us.ありがとうございましたThank you very much.