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The physicians who work at Kinya Hirata's upscale clinic in the Roppongi Hills complex in Tokyo are fully bilingual.
"About 10 percent of our daily 300 patients are non-Japanese," said Hirata, a heart surgeon and director of Roppongi Hills Clinic. His facility is equipped with laboratories for instant blood and urine tests, as well as a ¥200 million CT scanner.
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