(Separate Form No.1)

Mr. Hisao Endo

President, Japan Health Economics Association

Mr. Shuzo Nishimura

Director General, Institute for Health Economics and Policy

License agreement for use of copyrighted material

I agree here to the following contents about the copyrighted work "XXXXXXXXXXX" which was decided to be accepted in the “Asian Pacific JournalofHealthEconomicsandPolicy”: Journal of Japan Health Economics Association (JHEA) and InstituteforHealthEconomicsandPolicy (IHEP).

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