| 1966 |
- Eiji Ito (Professor, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine) requests the Kanegafuchi Boseki Beauty Research Laboratory to perform makeup treatment on patients
Soin Esthetic’s technological development and clinical research (skin care and makeup) in the medical field begins
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| 1970 |
- Starts treatments every Saturday, free of charge, in Ginza with the cooperation of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine(Kanegafuchi Boseki)
- Research presentation at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
“Rehabilitation After Plastic Surgery”
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine: Eiji Ito
*The first report in Japan on the effectiveness of Medical Soin Esthetic
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| 1971 |
- The company was renamed Kanebō Co., Ltd. (formerly known as Kanegafuchi Boseki in kanji)
- Opens the Physical Clinic of Plastic Rehabilitation Center in Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo (Kanebō)
*The first facility in Japan dedicated to Medical Soin Esthetic (later relocated to Meguro-ku in 1977 and closed in 2001)
- Research presentation at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
“Rehabilitation After Plastic Surgery (Report No. 3): Softening and Sensory Improvement of Grafted Skin”
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine: Eiji Ito, Ryosuke Iso, et al.
Kanebō : Jun Yoshida
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| 1975 |
- Research presentation at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
“Texture of Grafted Skin and Its Improvement”
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine: Ryosuke Iso, Eiji Ito
Kanebō: Jun Yoshida
- Research presentation at the 6th Conference of the International Confederation for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
“Rehabilitation After Plastic Surgery”
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine: Eiji Ito, Ryosuke Iso
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| 1976 |
- Research presentation at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
“Effects of Medical Soin Esthetique on the Color Tone of Grafted Skin”
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine: Ryosuke Iso, Eiji Ito
Kanebō: Jun Yoshida
- Introduces Medical Soin Esthetic at Tokai University (Kanebō)
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| 1980 |
- Article published in the Japanese Journal of Plastic Surgery (Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 61–65)
“Effects of Medical Soin Esthetique as a Postoperative Treatment in Ameliorating Discoloration of Free Skin Grafts”
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine: Ryosuke Iso, Eiji Ito
- Research presentation at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
“Evaluation of Medical Soin Esthetique Based on Patient Questionnaires”
Department of Plastic andeconstructive Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine: Ryosuke Iso, Eiji Ito
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| 1981 |
- Kanebo’s “Medical Soin Apparatus” is approved by the (then) Ministry of Health and Welfare as a medical esthetic device.
*The first of its kind in Japan as a medical device (Kanebō)
- Introduces Medical Soin Esthetic at Kitasato University (Kanebō)
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| 1982 |
- Publication edited by the Association of Japanese Estheticians and Beauty Therapists
Medical Soin Esthetic: Intersection of Esthetics and Medicine
Kanebo Beauty Research Laboratory / Chief editor: Jun Yoshida
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| 1985 |
- Lecture at the 34th CIDESCO World Congress
“Improvement Effects and Actual Practice of Medical Soin Esthetic”
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine: Eiji Ito
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| 1987 |
- Article published in the Japanese Journal of Plastic Surgery (Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 76–82)
“Texture of Free Skin Grafts and Improvement Thereof: Stratum Corneum Water Content of Free Skin Grafts and Scar Tissue”
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine: Ryosuke Iso, Eiji Ito
Kanebō: Machiko Kojima
- Research presentation at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
“Evaluation of Medical Soin Esthetique Based on Patient Questionnaires (2nd Report)”
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine: Ryosuke Iso, Eiji Ito
Kanebō: Machiko Kojima
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| 1988 |
- Contributes to Plastic Surgery IV, a volume of the series New Handbooks in Surgical Science (Nakayama Shoten)
“Medical Soin Esthetic as Post-Plastic-Surgery Rehabilitation”
Director, Japan Plastic Surgical Rehabilitation Center: Ryosuke Iso
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| 1989 |
- Research presentation at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
“Changes in Free Skin Graft and Scar Tissue Stratum Corneum Water Content and Surface Microstructure Due to MSE”
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine: Ryosuke Iso, Eiji Ito
Department of Surgery, Nihon University School of Medicine: Kunio Suzuki
Kanebō : Machiko Kojima
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| 1990 |
- Research presentation at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
“Effects of MSE on Free Skin Graft and Scar Tissue Stratum Corneum Water Content”
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine: Ryosuke Iso, Eiji Ito
Department of Surgery, Nihon University School of Medicine: Kunio Suzuki
Kanebō: Machiko Kojima
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| 1992 |
- Serial in the Association of Japanese Estheticians and Beauty Therapists’ journal Esthétique
“Medicine and Esthetics” (1) to (5)
Kanebō: Akihiro Ishikawa
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| 1994 |
- Contributes an article to Simulation and Computer-Aided Surgery
“COLOUR MATCH AND TEXTURE MATCH IN THE FREE SKIN GRAFT”
Content: Explains the effects of Medical Soin Esthetic in improving the color tone and texture of free skin grafts
Director, Japan Plastic Surgical Rehabilitation Center: Ryosuke Iso
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| 1995 |
- Research presentation at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
“Improvement of Free Skin Graft and Scar Tissue Texture: Moisturization Effects of MSE”
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine: Ryosuke Iso, Eiji Ito
Department of Surgery, Nihon University School of Medicine: Kunio Suzuki
Kanebo: Shigeo Yoshida
“Adaptation of Soin Esthetique in the Plastic Surgery Field”
Department of Plastic & Aesthetic Surgery, Kitasato University Hospital: Toshiko Mizuno, Akio Sato, Kiyoshi Matsui, Tomoyuki Matsukura, Yasuto Shimakura, Yasuharu Yamazaki, Naoyuki Otake, Nobuyuki Shioya
- Article published in the professional esthetics journal creabeaux (No. 2)
“Medical Esthetics and Its Effects”
Kanebō: Kazunori Shimagami
- Article published in the professional esthetics journal creabeaux (No. 3)
“Medical Esthetics in Practice”
Kanebō: Chizuko Naito
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| 1997 |
- Lecture at the Association of Japanese Estheticians and Beauty Therapists 25th Anniversary Conference
“Fusion of the Dynamism Balance and Rhythm of Beauty and Health”
Kanebō: Kazunori Shimagami
- Article published in the professional esthetics journal creabeaux (No. 11)
“Medical Soin Esthetic and Its Social Role”
Kanebō: Kazunori Shimagami
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| 1999 |
- Exhibited and presented at the Life Exhibition of the 25th General Assembly of the Japan Medical Congress
“A Care System Integrating Esthetics and Medicine”: Looking back on 30 years of Medical Soin Esthetic
Kanebō: Kazunori Shimagami
- Lecture at the Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors
“The Social Role of Medical Esthetics and Its Application to Burns”
Kanebō: Kazunori Shimagami
- Article published in the Journal of Japanese Cosmetic Science Society (Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 108–115)
“Massage: Esthetic Treatment and Its Soothing Effect”
Kanebō: Kazunori Shimagami
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| 2000 |
- Lecture at the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Showa University School of Medicine (Medical and Paramedical Cosmetics Study Group, Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors)
“The Social Role of Medical Esthetics and Its Application to Burns”
Kanebō: Kazunori Shimagami
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| 2001 |
- The company was renamed Kanebo Co., Ltd
- Lecture at the 51st CIDESCO World Congress
“THE ‘CHRONO- ESTHETIC’ The Dynamic Principle of Balance and Rhythm Creates Health and Beauty”
Kanebo Beauty Research Laboratory: Kazunori Shimagami
- Lecture at the Japan–and South Korea Joint Symposium, “Skin Revitalization Massage Symposium”
“The Effects and Social Role of Medical Esthetics”
Kanebo: Kazunori Shimagami
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| 2002 |
- Lecture at the Association of Japanese Estheticians and Beauty Therapists 30th Anniversary Conference
“Evolution and Harmony of Esthetics (Overview of Medical Esthetic Data)”
Kanebo: Kazunori Shimagami
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| 2004 |
- The cosmetics division was separated and became independent from Kanebo Co., Ltd., leading to the establishment of Kanebo Cosmetics Inc.
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| 2005 |
- Lecture at the 1st Esthetique Academic Conference
“Pursuing Effectiveness with Scientific Verification ‘Evidence Based Aesthetic’”
Kanebo Cosmetics: Kazunori Shimagami
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| 2007 |
- Lecture at Diet & Beauty 2007
“The Potential of Esthetic Care in the Fields of Medicine and Welfare”
Kanebo Cosmetics: Kazunori Shimagami
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| 2008 |
- Lecture at the 3rd Esthetique Academic Conference
“Importance of Esthetics as ‘Co-medical’”
Article published on the same topic in the professional esthetics journal creabeaux (No. 255)
Kanebo Cosmetics: Kazunori Shimagami
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| 2011 |
- Research presentation at the 14th Kitasato University Hospital Forum
“Impact from Estheticians on Patient QOL at the Department of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine: Review Based on Skindex-16, 2011, Yokohama”
Department of Plastic & Aesthetic Surgery, Kitasato University Hospital: Yoshika Sugimoto, Atsuko Takayama, Yasuto Shimakura, Akira Takeda, Hideki Uchinuma
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| 2012 |
- Research Presentation at the 15th Kitasato University Hospital Forum
“Impact from Estheticians on Patient QOL at the Department of Plastic & Aesthetic Surgery, Kitasato University Hospital”
Department of Plastic & Aesthetic Surgery, Kitasato University Hospital: Yoshika Sugimoto, Atsuko Takayama, Yasuto Shimakura, Akira Takeda, Hideki Uchinuma
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| 2015 |
- Research Presentation at the 18th Kitasato University Hospital Forum
“Psychological Effects of Medical Soin Esthetic on Patients with Cicatrices and Hypertrophic Scars”
Department of Plastic & Aesthetic Surgery, Kitasato University Hospital: Keiichi Park, Yoshika Sugimoto, Yasuto Shimakura, Akira Takeda
Kanebo Cosmetics: Kimie Tateuchi, Haruka Kawai, Seiko Hayashi
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| 2017 |
- Research Presentation at the 20th Kitasato University Hospital Forum
“Impact from Estheticians on Patient QOL at the Department of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine: Review based on Skindex-16”
Department of Plastic & Aesthetic Surgery, Kitasato University Hospital: Yoshika Sugimoto, Keiichi Park, Atsuko Takayama, Yasuto Shimakura, Akira Takeda
Kanebo Cosmetics: Kimie Tateuchi
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| 2019 |
- Research Presentation at the 22th Kitasato University Hospital Forum
“Impact from Estheticians on Patient QOL: Initiatives at the Department of Plastic & Aesthetic Surgery, Kitasato University Hospital”
Department of Plastic & Aesthetic Surgery, Kitasato University Hospital: Yoshika Sugimoto, Keiichi Park, Atsuko Takayama, Yasuto Shimakura, Akira Takeda
Kanebo Cosmetics: Kimie Tateuchi, Rumiko Ataku, Mayumi Imahara, Mayumi Yokoshima
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| 2021 |
- Research presentation at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
“Initiatives in Medical Soin Esthetic Outpatient Treatment”
Department of Plastic & Aesthetic Surgery, Kitasato University Hospital: Yoshika Sugimoto, Yasuto Shimakura, Atsuko Takayama, Takayuki Sugimoto, Akira Takeda
Kanebo Cosmetics: Kazunori Shimagami, Kimie Tateuchi, Rumiko Ataku
- Article published in the Journal of Japan Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 43 (3): pp. 107–119, 2021
“The Role and Effectiveness of Medical Soin Esthetic: Initiatives at the Department of Plastic & Aesthetic Surgery, Kitasato University Hospital”
Department of Plastic & Aesthetic Surgery, Kitasato University Hospital: Yoshika Sugimoto, Yasuto Shimakura, Atsuko Takayama, Takayuki Sugimoto, Akira Takeda
Kanebo Cosmetics: Kazunori Shimagami, Kimie Tateuchi, Rumiko Ataku, Mayumi Imahara
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| 2022 |
- Participated in a panel discussion at the CancerX Summit “World Cancer Week 2022”
Department of Plastic & Aesthetic Surgery, Kitasato University Hospital: Yoshika Sugimoto
Kao: Rumiko Ataku
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| 2024 |
- Poster presentation at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Surgical Wound Care (July 11–12, 2024)
“The Role of Medical Soin Esthetic (MSE) Outpatient Treatment: Comparison Between Burn Wound Patients and Patients Undergoing Reconstructive Treatment After Malignant Tumor Resection”
Department of Plastic & Aesthetic Surgery, Kitasato University Hospital: Yoshika Sugimoto, Takayuki Sugimoto, Mikiko Shimomura, Junpei Wato, Saori Iwakawa, Akira Takeda
Kao: Rumiko Ataku, Mayumi Imahara
- 42nd Annual Meeting of the Taiwan Society of Plastic Surgery (TSPS)
“Medical Soin Aesthetics (MSE): Enhancing Postoperative Care and Quality of Life”
(Department of Plastic & Aesthetic Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine: Takayuki Sugimoto, Yoshika Sugimoto, Akira Takeda)
Department of Plastic & Aesthetic Surgery, Kitasato University Hospital: Yoshika Sugimoto, Takayuki Sugimoto, Akira Takeda
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