Many years ago, the manager at a hotel where I was staying in Taiwan informed me that his boss was ailing due to diabetes.
Well, that's not exactly what he said. Dick Chang's exact words were, "I not know how to say in English, but I think you understand: in Chinese we say, "sugar pee-pee sickness."
The term for diabetes is the same in Chinese and Japanese and is written 糖尿病 (tōnyōbyō), composed of 糖 (to, sugar), 尿 (nyō, urine) and 病 (byō, sickness).