★　Update (2016) 

Here in Japan, the CFS has been officially classified to the autoimmune disease by 

Japanese Society of Internal Medicine since 2008.

[Click on the  "膠原病および類縁疾患 - 1.18MB " in the "http://www.naika.or.jp/nintei/curriculum/cur_top.html"
 You can find the CFS (慢性疲労症候群) in the V-# 27   ...All are written in Japanese... ]

★　For the children:

In Japan, the "Pediatrics dpt (Rheumatolgoy)" have accepted the pediatric CFS patients 

relatively well comparing to the adults CFS patients. Make sure by calling up to the 

hospital which has the "Pediatrics Rheumatology dpt" and consult about your children 

before you will visit the hopsital.

★　For adults:

Before visiting some hospitals (rheumatology dpt), we highly recommend you to call 

up each hospital (Rheumatology dpt) to make sure that the Rheumatology department 

really accept the CFS patients.

-- Although we have already started to educated the CFS as one the autoimmune diseases, 

lots of  rheumatologists still stubbornly keep  refusing  to accept the CFS as the autoimmune

disease regardless the official classification of the Japanese Society of Internal 

Medicine in 2008 (above).

★ Or, consult your family doctors. 

Or please look up the below, the "CFS doctor's list (2010)", and consider these doctors 

also.

//// The name change has been needed.////

・The hospital for the child and adolescent CFS patients in Japan:

Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokuso Hospital (Pediatrics) -"collagen, rheumatologic, immune diseases" section.

...They have seen the CFS children for decades since early 1990 (since Emeritus Professor Yasuhiko ITO era, 

the member of the  first official CFS research group (1991-1997) run by our ex health ministory)...

*The doctor below is one of the most famous Rheumatologists in Japan who announced the CFS as the auto-immune 

disease in his own book　for the patients.  The first edition was published in 1993.]
NOTE: The hospital doesn't see the CFS patients (retired)

〜Administrator, Co-Cure-Japan, 2013〜