Abstract
Cervical cancer has been increasing in younger generation, especially in 20's and 30's, so it has been a serious problem that the disease leads to loss of fertility as an urgent issue in Japan. HPV vaccine was added to the national list of routine vaccinations for Japanese girls aged 12 to 16 years by law since April, 2013. Three months later, however, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare suspended recommendations for HPV vaccination after several reports of possible adverse events. We investigated the HPV vaccination rates in 7-11th grade girls (ages 12to16 years) in Niigata from April, 2011 to March, 2015 (from 2011 to 2014 fiscal year) to clarify a recent trend of the HPV vaccination rates in Japan in detail.