Welcome Mrs. Tomoko, I would like to congratulate you on putting up a web site. May I have the URL so I can "look"... I work with a Japanese gentleman and I'll get him to translate. Best wishes ..... murray Mrs. Tomoko wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have been a quiet subscriber and have been amazed by the way you > act in a very positive way to cope with each one of the problems with > PD.Since I joined this ML,I have been reflecting my very passive attitude > toward my PD for the last > 12 years with PD after I was diagnosed at the of 26. > > So I wrote to a letter to the biggest newspaper in Japan about the > hearing > of Michael J Fox. > Yet I haven't heard anything from them nor have't seen any aritcles about > MJF whose films > have been watched by millions of Japanese people. > > My husband said they would get interested only in something people would > get interested in. I > thought they would when you think about the tremendous hope the stemcells' > transplantation > would bring to the people with serious illness like Pd or diabetes. > > I have been making a homepage on Pd in Japanese ,wishing I could do > something about raising the awareness on PD in Japan.I also > have been looking for ways to share and exchange the infor on PD in Japan > and the infor you put on this ML > in English from all over the world. > > I am currently living in UK. > I am wondering why Requip (Ropinirole)is not still available in Japan .A lot > of evidence has been presented about the efficacy of the advanced PD > as well as the early stage of Pd. They haven't got Tolcapone nor > Entacapone neither. And many of the Japanese Parkinsonians are very > interested in Sinemet CR which is not on market in Japan. My learning curve > on PD is very steep now. > > Getting involved in something positive on PD really energyes me . > I want to get out of my shell and do what I can do with my best ablities. > > > Tomoko Abe(Mrs) [log in to unmask] View the Parkinson's Awareness Links at: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/pienet/wwweb/index.html