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FMJ is fully Open Access and uses a Creative Commons license on all published works.

Copyright and licensing

Authors retain copyright but are required to sign a License to Publish to grant the Fujita Medical Society permission to reproduce the work in the journal under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) International license after the manuscript is accepted. This license allows anyone to download, reuse, copy, reprint, distribute, or modify articles published in the journal, provided they cite the original authors and source. In such cases, no permission is required from either the authors or the publisher.

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