Two papers by researchers and policy practitioners provide evidence-based suggestions to help Japan's health system continue ...

The Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics are set for just months from now, but one Japanese hospital is begging for the nation to cancel the big event. “Medical capacity has reached its limits. Stop the ...

On July 16, 2026, an international research team led by Tohoku University published two policy review papers that examine Japan's health system and global health strategy in The Lancet Regional Health ...

The platform of a hospital ship seems tailor-made for Japan’s situation — yet the country doesn’t have one. The 2013 deployment of Japan’s gleaming 10,000-ton hospital ship auxiliary of the Maritime ...

It’s unclear how patients will rate the bedside manner of these new hospital staff in Japan’s Nagoya University Hospital, but in terms of these robots’ ability to attend to patients at all hours of ...