Forensic Toxicology is the official publication of the Japanese Association of Forensic Toxicology (JAFT) and is the continuation of the Japanese Journal of Forensic Toxicology (ISSN 0915-9606). The journal provides an international forum for publication of studies on toxic substances, drugs of abuse, doping agents, chemical warfare agents, and their metabolisms and analyses, which are directly and indirectly related to laws and ethics. It includes original articles, reviews, minireviews, short communications, case reports, and letters to the editor. Although a major focus of the journal is on the development or improvement of analytical methods for the above-mentioned chemicals in human matrices, studies with animal experiments are also welcome.

The Japanese Association of Forensic Toxicology (JAFT) was founded in 1982 as the Japanese branch of The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists (TIAFT).

Its objectives are to promote studies on toxicology directly and indirectly related to laws and ethics. JAFT also fosters the exchange of scientific information through meetings and their journal Forensic Toxicology both domestically and internationally.

Chief Editors
Osamu Suzuki, MD, PhD
Department of Legal Medicine
Hamamatsu University School of Medicine
1-20-1 Handayama, Higashi­ku, Hamamatsu 431-3192, Japan
E-mail: osamusuzukon@yahoo.co.jp
Yasuo Seto, PhD
RIKEN Spring-8 Center,
Forensic Science Group,
1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun,
Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
E-mail: seto.y@spring8.or.jp
Editors
Yuko T. Iwata, PhD
(NRIPS, Kashiwa, Japan)
Tatsuyuki Kanamori, PhD
(NRIPS, Kashiwa, Japan)
Munehiro Katagi, PhD
(Forensic Sci. Lab., Osaka Pref. Police HQ, Osaka, Japan)
Associate Editors
Kimiko Aoki, PhD
(Nihon Pharm. Univ., Saitama, Japan)
Akira Ishii, MD, PhD
(Nagoya Univ., Nagoya, Japan)
Ruri Kikura-Hanajiri, PhD
(Natl. Inst. Health Sci., Kawasaki, Japan)
Akihiro Miki, PhD
(Forensic Sci. Lab., Osaka Pref. Police HQ, Osaka, Japan)
Fumio Moriya, PhD
(Kawasaki Univ. Med. Welfare, Kurashiki, Japan)
Akira Namera, PhD
(Hiroshima Univ., Hiroshima, Japan)
Takeshi Saito, PhD
(Tokai Univ., Isehara, Japan)
Shin-ichi Suzuki, PhD
(Yokohama Univ. Pharm., Yokohama, Japan)
Editorial Board
Volker Auwarter, PhD
(Univ. Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany)
Hee-Sun Chung, PhD
(Chungnam Natl. Univ., Daejeon, Korea)
Małgorzata Kłys, PhD
(Jagiellonian Univ. Med. Coll., Krakow Poland)
Keiko Kudo, PhD
(Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan)
Dominick A. Labianca, PhD
(CUNY, Brooklyn, USA)
Harald Schutz, PhD
(Univ. Giessen, Giessen, Germany)
Hiroshi Seno, MD, PhD
(Aichi Med. Univ., Aichi, Japan)
Hitoshi Tsuchihashi, PhD
(Nagoya Univ., Nagoya, Japan)
Advisory Board
Piotr Adamowicz, PhD
(Inst. Forensic Res., Krakow, Poland)
Sotiris Athanaselis, PhD
(Natl. Kapodistrian Univ. Athens, Athens, Greece)
Olaf H. Drummer, PhD
(Monash Univ., Clayton, Australia)
Chiaki Fuke, PhD
(Univ. Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan)
Kunio Gonmori, PhD
(Hamamatsu Univ. Sch. Med., Hamamatsu, Japan)
Andrej Grigoryev, PhD
(Bureau Forensic-Med. Expertise, Moscow, Russia)
Marilyn Huestis, PhD
(Univ. Maryland Sch. Med., Baltimore, USA)
Hiroyuki Inoue, PhD
(NRIPS, Kashiwa, Japan)
Daniel S. Isenschmid, PhD
(NMS Labs, Philadelphia, USA)
Yuji Ishii, PhD
(Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan)
Sarah Kerrigan, PhD
(Sam Houston State Univ., Huntsville, USA)
Richard C. Kevin, PhD
(Univ. Sydney, Sydney, Australia)
Pascal Kintz, PhD
(X-Pertise Consulting, Oberhausbergen, France)
Shin-ichi Kubo, MD, PhD
(Fukuoka Univ. Sch. Med., Fukuoka, Japan)
Junting Liu, PhD
(China Med. Univ., Shenyang, P.R. China)
Ray H. Liu, PhD
(Univ. Alabama, Birmingham, USA)
Hans H. Maurer, PhD
(Saaland Univ., Homburg, Germany)
Christa E. Muller, PhD
(Pharm. Inst., Univ. Bonn, Germany)
Jun’ichi Nakajima, PhD
(Tokyo Metropol. Inst. Public Health, Tokyo, Japan)
Satoshi Numazawa, PhD
(Showa Univ. Sch. Pharm., Tokyo, Japan)
Yokichi Ohno, MD, PhD
(Nippon Med. Sch., Tokyo, Japan)
Anthony T. Tu, PhD
(Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, USA)
Makoto Ueki, PhD
(Japan Chem. Anal. Center, Tokyo, Japan)
Alan G. Verstraete, PhD
(Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium)
Kazuhito Watanabe, PhD
(Daiichi Univ. Pharm., Fukuoka, Japan)