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U S PATIENTS

Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Sep 13, 2020
As the industry goes online, fashion trends go retro
Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo is still on schedule; Animal Crossing is haute couture; and Wacko Maria celebrates 15 years.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Mar 30, 2020
Fashion week is compelled to go online
Japan's fashion industry was hit hard by the March cancellation of Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo, saved only by livestreaming and online content as a way to keep fans informed.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 29, 2018
Fifth death confirmed at Japan hospital after air conditioning fails
A fifth elderly patient in Gifu Prefecture has died at a hospital where air conditioning units had broken down amid a heat wave that has gripped the country.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society / Deep Dive
Jun 17, 2018
Travelers without insurance cause headaches for Japan's hospitals
Are you insured?
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Feb 23, 2018
Survey shows end-of-life care planning still limited in Japan
A majority of people in Japan favor making formal plans about the health care they would like to receive at the end of their lives, but only a small proportion have actually done so, a health ministry survey showed Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 11, 2018
Japanese firms brainstorming ways to keep staff with cancer active, productive under new law
Corporate Japan is striving to make it possible for employees with cancer to continue working as usual while undergoing treatment.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Sep 18, 2017
Japan's free ambulance services stretched by aging population, nonemergency overuse
The sirens are going off about the state of ambulance services.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2017
Japan's health care system edges foreign care in expat survey
Just over half of non-Japanese residents feel Japan's health care system is generally better than that in their home countries, a trend particularly pronounced among U.S. citizens, with 3 out of 4 rating it more highly, an informal Japan Times survey has found.
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2016
Hospitals sought for treating 'medical tourists'
An incorporated association promoting the globalization of Japanese medical services said it will publicly solicit medical institutions seeking to be registered on a list of hospitals prepared to treat foreign patients.
JAPAN / Science & Health
May 9, 2016
Number of patients physically restrained at psychiatric hospitals soars
The number of patients physically restrained at psychiatric hospitals more than doubled to 10,299 in fiscal 2013, compared with a decade earlier, data released Monday by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry show.
EDITORIALS
Jul 31, 2015
Reducing fatal errors at hospitals
It is hoped that a new system to investigate unexpected deaths at hospitals will help medical personnel learn from mistakes and lower patient fatalities.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 25, 2015
Understanding the truth about medical consent
Obtaining patient consent is a vital but often overlooked skill for doctors.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jan 9, 2015
Number of flu patients in Japan came to 1.38 million in late December
About 1.38 million people are estimated to have visited medical institutions across the country during a seven-day period in late December due to influenza, nearly double the estimate the previous week, the health ministry said Thursday.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2014
Authorities move ahead with plans to disclose info on suspected Ebola cases
Authorities are moving ahead with plans to disclose details on individuals suspected of being infected with the Ebola virus, and the flight numbers of aircraft they boarded, once their blood samples are sent for testing at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, health and transport ministry officials said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 31, 2014
Info disclosure eyed for suspected Ebola victims
Transport minister Akihiro Ota said Friday the government might disclose information on people suspected of having the deadly Ebola virus.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 29, 2014
Japan's medical field is increasingly adopting speech privacy systems to protect conversations
Hospitals and drugstores are increasingly installing speech privacy systems to keep patients from being overheard by others when divulging sensitive private information to staff.
EDITORIALS
Jul 7, 2014
Not a solution for mental patients
The health and welfare ministry's plan to renovate some wards of mental hospitals into residences to reduce the official number of long-term in-patients will only prolong the 'former' patients' isolation from society.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2014
Badges for 'invisible disabilities' catching on
Patients with hidden physical impediments — internal conditions not immediately recognizable by others — are increasingly wearing badges as they try to increase awareness of the difficulties they face.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 23, 2014
Suicides among cancer patients 20 times that of general population
Cancer patients are 20 times more likely to commit suicide within the first year of their diagnosis than members of the general population, according to new findings.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Apr 17, 2014
Gadgets open window to bilingual medical services
Language barriers can be life-threatening when you get sick in a foreign country and don't know how to explain it to your doctor.

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