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Tomoko Sato, the chief of emergency medicine at Saiseikai Kumamoto Hospital, brought her two children to the hospital so she could continue treating patients following the Kumamoto earthquake.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Aug 3, 2026
A pressing question on the front lines in Kumamoto: Who cares for the caregivers?
Emergency doctor Tomoko Sato found herself torn between two urgent demands: caring for a surge of incoming patients and protecting her own children.
Kashiwa Tanaka Hospital officials apologize during a news conference in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, on Thursday, following the arrest of one of their former nurses.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 17, 2026
Ex-nurse accused of murder researched injecting feces into IV drip
The 51-year-old former nurse was also seen entering the patient¡¯s room several times shortly before his death, according to hospital officials.
A former nurse at Kashiwa Tanaka Hospital in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, is suspected of mixing excrement into an IV drip for an inpatient on Jan. 30.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 16, 2026
Ex-nurse in Chiba Prefecture suspected of killing patient by mixing feces in IV
After the inpatient died from multiple organ failure resulting from sepsis, a brown-colored foreign object was discovered in his IV tube, according to the police.
Megumi Akama, 40, was found guilty of murdering a resident of an elderly care home by injecting air into the victim's intravenous drip tube while she was working at the facility in 2020.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 8, 2026
Ex-care home worker in Ibaraki gets 20 years for killing elderly resident
Megumi Akama, 40, was found guilty of injecting air into the victim¡¯s intravenous drip tube while she was working at the facility in 2020.
Masako Sugami holds a coffin made for stillborn babies, in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture.
JAPAN / Society / Regional voices: Chubu
Apr 20, 2026
Mie nurse aims to provide coffins to grieving mothers of stillborn babies
¡°Even if their lives were short, their existence has value,¡± the 66-year-old nurse said of the children, who normally are given to parents in paper boxes.
Princess Aiko makes a speech at Chiba University's School of Nursing on Sunday in the city of Chiba.
JAPAN
Dec 14, 2025
Princess Aiko attends ceremony for Chiba University¡¯s school of nursing
Chiba University is the country¡¯s only national university with a nursing department. Some 400 people, including students and university staff, attended the ceremony.
Hisaaki Ikeuchi (right), chief of Shiga Prefectural Police department, bows in apology to former nurse Mika Nishiyama (left) during their meeting in Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, on Thursday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 7, 2025
Shiga police chief apologizes to ex-assistant nurse acquitted after prison term
The apology came after a local court ruled that the prefectural police¡¯s investigation was illegal.
Members of a former nurse¡¯s legal team hold up a sign reading ¡°Victory against the prefecture¡± after the Otsu District Court ruled in their favor on Thursday.?
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 18, 2025
Shiga government ordered to compensate ex-assistant nurse acquitted of murder
The plaintiff side argued the police officers who were in charge of investigating the former assistant nurse intentionally led her to make a false confession.
An Afghan midwife prepares a report in the nursery section at a private hospital in Kabul on Dec. 10.? The Taliban's supreme leader is reportedly behind a ban on women studying midwifery and nursing at training institutes across the country, already among the worst in the world for deaths in childbirth.
WORLD / Society
Dec 16, 2024
Afghan student nurses crushed as Taliban block last hopes of a job
Since seizing power in 2021, the Taliban have barred women from university and most jobs, and imposed tight restrictions on their lives.
The University of Tokyo Hospital in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward
JAPAN / Society
Jun 12, 2024
16 heart transplant surgeries abandoned in Japan in 2023
Of the 16 patients whose transplant operations were abandoned, 10 received transplants later, while six are still awaiting transplants.
Shi Pong Hsu, 75, makes coffee in a Singapore coffee shop. The city-state's government projects that almost a quarter of its population will be 65 or over by 2030.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 10, 2024
Singapore is bracing for a super-aging society
Japan and South Korea may be the poster children for low birthrates, but Singapore is confronting its own decline. Its solution? Bonuses for nurses.
The Central Social Insurance Medical Council has adopted a?proposal to increase outpatient fees in order to boost the salaries of health care workers.
JAPAN
Feb 15, 2024
Japan to raise outpatient visit fees to increase workers¡¯ pay
In order to increase pay?for young doctors, nursing staff and pharmacists, basic hospitalization fees and outpatient fees will be raised.
JAPAN
Jan 16, 2024
Doctors and nurses support families at morgues after Noto quake
Teams were sent after the 2016 quakes in Kumamoto Prefecture and a major mudslide in Atami in Shizuoka Prefecture in 2021.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 15, 2023
Exodus of health care workers from poor countries worsening, WHO says
The trend for nurses and other staff to leave parts of Africa or Southeast Asia for wealthier countries in the Middle East or Europe has accelerated as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 5, 2022
Nursing shortage sparks bidding war as countries vie for talent
No nation is better prepared to help the world staff up its hospitals and clinics than the Philippines, the single biggest exporter of nurses.
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
Jan 2, 2022
How the pandemic changed Â鶹´«Ã½ health care system
COVID-19 has overhauled work practices and exposed the divisions between the public and private sectors of the medical system.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Okinawa
Oct 18, 2021
Okinawa medical workers push back against unfair COVID-19 bonus system
The prefecture has seen some staff receive more compensation for extra work during the pandemic than others.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Oct 18, 2021
How 3/11 forced a Fukushima doctor to become an expert in treating radiation
Medical workers who had no prior experience of dealing with the issue found themselves on the front line in March 2011.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 3, 2021
Vaccine mandates hit U.S. amid historic health care staff shortage
What some are calling the worst U.S. health care labor crisis in memory is sharpening concerns about attrition from resistance to vaccine mandates.
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Severe tropical storm Chan-hom makes landfall near Tokyo
Severe Tropical Storm Chan-hom made landfall around Ibaraki Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Tuesday night.
What Â鶹´«Ã½ language rules for permanent residency should look like
Potential health care workers hoping to find work in Japan take Japanese language instruction in Jakarta. Not all applicants for permanent residency should be expected to reach this level of proficiency.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.
Â鶹´«Ã½ brewers experiment with a secret ingredient: music
At Smoke Craft, a craft beer brewery in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, music isn't just a background to the brewing process ¡ª it's an ingredient.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
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