Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions

The expansion of application and research based on applied behavior analysis strategies and interventions in Japan has been remarkable these past few decades. Starting with the establishment of the Japanese Association of Behavior Ana lysis in 1983 with a membership of 161 people, its membership has grown steadily to 881 people in 2009. In 2010, at the 28th annual convention held in Kobe, the asso-ciation invited Dr. Robert L. Koegel and Dr. Lynn K. Koe-gel as guest speakers for a workshop and a lecture on Pivotal Res ponse Training. Over the years, related asso-ciations have been established, and several official jour-nals and books have been published that guide practice in classrooms and those that can help in parent training/ support. Approaches incorporating positive behavior support (PBS) features (Carr et al., 2002) are becoming widely used and are spreading. One example of such approaches is the use of functional behavioral assessment (FBA) and FBA-based interventions in real-life settings. Its implementation in red-ucing challenging behaviors and teaching replacement beha-viors has expanded to regular classrooms, especially during the past decade. Another trend related to FBA during the past decade is the emphasis and increase in the use of ante-cedent assessments and interventions (Conroy & Stichter