Category: Japan

by Michael Gillan Peckitt February 14, 2025 Number of comments0
Disability Elderly Japan Organ Donation Podcast

Japan’s Health Ministry Introducing System to Assist Institutions with ‘Brain-Death’ Organ Donations [Podcast Episode]

Japan’s Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry this year started rolling out an online system to enable about 70 institutions with minimal experience in the processes behind organ donations from brain-dead patients to connect with core medical institutions that have abundant experience. The initiative seeks to help the inexperienced institutions with declaring patients as brain dead and is part of an effort to increase the number of organ donations in the country.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt February 13, 2025 Number of comments0
Cancer Disability Health Japan

Japan 10-Year Cancer Survival Rate at 54 Pct in Latest Survey

The 10-year survival rate of people diagnosed with cancer in Japan in 2012 came to 54.0 pct, up slightly from 53.5 pct for those diagnosed in 2011, the National Cancer Center said Thursday. By cancer type, the 10-year survival rate was 57.9 pct for stomach cancer, the most common cancer among the patients surveyed, and 58.1 pct and 32.6 pct, respectively, for bowel cancer and non-small cell lung cancer, the second and third most common types.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt February 13, 2025 Number of comments0
Disability Health Japan Organ Donation

Japan’s Health Ministry Introducing System to Assist with Organ Donations; Institutions Inexperienced in Brain-Dead Donations To Get Help

Japan’s Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry this year started rolling out an online system to enable about 70 institutions with minimal experience in the processes behind organ donations from brain-dead patients to connect with core medical institutions that have abundant experience.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt February 12, 2025 Number of comments0
Children Health Japan

Children with Tooth Cavities at Record Low in Japan, Eyesight Continues to Deteriorate

The proportion of children with tooth cavities in Japan hit a record low in fiscal 2024, apparently reflecting advice on tooth brushing and other related initiatives at schools, a survey by the health ministry showed Wednesday. Meanwhile, children’s vision continued to deteriorate. The proportion of children whose vision was less than 20/20 stood at 36.84 pct at elementary schools, 60.61 pct at junior high schools and 71.06 pct at high schools, all the highest on record except for fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2023, when the survey period was different.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt February 12, 2025 Number of comments0
Health Japan Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. Podcast

The Saga of “Scandal-Tainted Kobayashi Pharma Co” Continues [Podcast Episode]

Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. said on Friday March 22nd 2024 it will voluntarily recall some 300,000 packs of five supplement products in Japan after reports of health damage suffered by users. The Osaka-based company said in March 2024 that 13 people had developed kidney disease and other symptoms after taking the products, advertised as foods with functional claims, including three containing “beni koji,” rice fermented with monascus purpureus, a species of mold that is red.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt February 8, 2025 Number of comments0
Deaf Disability Hearing Impaired Japan

Osaka High Court finalizes full lost earnings ruling for deceased girl with disability

A Japanese high court has finalized a ruling recognizing that the estimated lost earnings of a girl with a hearing impairment who died in an accident should be considered at the same level as for people without disabilities. Ide Ayuka was 11 years old when she was fatally struck by a power shovel that ran onto a sidewalk in Osaka City in 2018. She had been attending a school for children with hearing impairments. The ruling was finalized as the driver and the company did not appeal by the Tuesday 4 February deadline.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt February 7, 2025 Number of comments0
Care Japan Nursing Care

Japan to Allow Foreigners to Engage in Home Care Services

The Japanese government Thursday presented to an experts panel a plan to allow foreign nationals to engage in home care services under the country’s specified skilled worker program as part of efforts to alleviate severe labor shortages. The government also proposed easing regulations so that more foreigners can work in the restaurant industry and at manufacturers of industrial products, which are also struggling with manpower shortages.