Correction to: Management of elderly ulcerative colitis in Japan (Journal of Gastroenterology, (2019), 54, 7, (571-586), 10.1007/s00535-019-01580-y)

The article ‘‘Management of elderly ulcerative colitis in Japan’’, written by Masaaki Higashiyama, Akira Sugita, Kazutaka Koganei, Kenji Wanatabe, Yoko Yokoyama, Motoi Uchino, Masakazu Nagahori, Makoto Naganuma, Shigeki Bamba, Shingo Kato, Ken Takeuchi, Teppei Omori, Tomohisa Takagi, Satohiro Matsumoto, Mitsuo Nagasaka, Shintaro Sagami, Kazuya Kitamura, Takehiko Katsurada, Ken Sugimoto, Noritaka Takatsu, Masayuki Saruta, Toshiyuki Sakurai, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Shiro Nakamura, Yasuo Suzuki, and Ryota Hokari was originally published Online First without open access. After publication in volume 54, issue 7, page 571–586 the Japanese Society of Gastroenterology requested that the article be Open Choice to make the article an open access publication. Post-publication open access was funded by the Japanese Society of Gastroenterology. The article is forthwith distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The original article has been updated.