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HOSPITALS

Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Oct 3, 2022
Calls made for COVID victims' families to be allowed a final farewell
Families of those who died of COVID-19 are still banned from attending cremations in nine municipalities in Hiroshima, and many hospitals prevent relatives from seeing patients after death.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 6, 2022
On medical exchange program in Tokyo, Ukrainians both receive and give lessons
The Juntendo University training has allowed Ukrainian doctors and students to receive essential training, and they have been able to share lessons on conflict too.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 2, 2022
Japan drafts plan to punish hospitals and people for skirting pandemic rules
The government is planning to revise a related law to mandate that people suspected of having COVID-19 isolate at home.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 2, 2022
Insurers in Japan to narrow scope of COVID-19 benefits
The move reflects the health ministry's shift to requiring detailed infection reports only on cases involving people with high risks of developing severe symptoms.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 1, 2022
Training in Tokyo, but knowing the real work is 8,000 km away in Ukraine
A Juntendo University training program for Ukrainian health care workers offered Dr. Uliana Kashchii respite from the conflict, but now she is heading to the front line.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2022
Number of severely ill COVID-19 patients surges in Japan
Hospital beds for coronavirus patients are increasingly being occupied, prompting an expert to say that it is wrong to think that omicron does not cause serious symptoms.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 15, 2022
Doctor recalls grim situation as team fought to save Abe
The team transfused into Abe around 13 liters of blood, equivalent to the combined amount of blood in two to three adults.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 6, 2022
China's private health system hurt by tough coronavirus controls
Dozens of private hospitals have declared bankruptcy in China during the past two years, pushed over the edge by the cost of complying with the country's 'COVID zero' policies.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2022
Japan's weekly number of heatstroke victims hits record for June
The figure reached 4,551 in the week through Sunday, up 3.4 times from the previous week, the agency said Tuesday. Four of the victims died.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 13, 2022
Inside a Ukraine hospital where medics work as rockets fall
The sheer scale of a front line that stretches for hundreds of kilometers has stretched Ukraine's resources to the limit.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Apr 13, 2022
Drugs running out and surgeries canceled as Sri Lanka's health system buckles
Under the weight of the island nation's worst economic crisis, the health care system is close to collapse.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 1, 2022
Japan, in need of more babies, is helping pay for costly IVF
As part of a new policy, public health insurance will reimburse 70% of the costs of advanced fertility treatments.
Japan's elderly population grows to record 36.25 million
The proportion of people aged 65 and over has risen since the 1950s and is expected to hit 34.8% by 2040, when the second baby boomers (born 1971-1974) will join that group.
'Shogun' becomes first non-English-language winner of best drama Emmy
Japanese actress Anna Sawai, winner of the outstanding lead actress in a drama series award for "Shogun," and Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada, winner of the outstanding lead actor in a drama series award for the show, pose in the press room during the 76th Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Japan jumps to No. 2, from sixth place, in Best Countries index
Pedestrians cross an intersection in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Japan has experienced a postpandemic travel boom, with tourists pouring back in after restrictions closed the country’s borders to travelers.
South Korea is facing deepfake porn crisis
Activists hold up symbolic eye masks during a protest against deepfake porn in Seoul on Aug. 30.
Second assassination attempt on Trump is latest jolt in chaotic campaign
U.S. Secret Service and Homeland Security agents check a former home of a Ryan Routh, a suspect in an alleged assassination attempt on former U.S. President Donald Trump, in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Sunday.
‘Shogun’ and the painstaking art of ‘getting it right’
Hiroyuki Sanada and the cast and crew of "Shogun" accept the award for best drama series at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California.
Japan’s schools battle to keep kids cool, with or without AC
Students sit under a misting system during recess at Hikarigaoka Haru no Kaze Elementary School in Nerima Ward, Tokyo, on Sept. 6.
Chris Broad's new bar puts cocktails first, YouTube second
A self-proclaimed lover of great cocktails, YouTuber Chris Broad says his new Shibuya watering hole is more a place to get yourself a solid drink than it is anything related to his social media career.
In LDP presidential poll, three kingmakers hold all the cards
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo in January as former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (left) looks on.

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