After my first couple of hours in a Japanese hospital, I started to feel like I was in prison ... It does not include food, the cost of a double or private room, or additional fees. Keep in mind that ...

Dr. Harada Fumiue works at a clinic in Tokyo. Across Japan, there are some 11,000 hospital beds equipped to accommodate coronavirus patients. The total number of in-patients is at least 6,600.

It's not just Osaka University Hospital that is struggling with a shortage of anesthesiologists. The problem exists nationwide and that is reflected in Japan's low take-up rate for epidurals.

A Japanese woman in her 30s who stayed in the same room with him has also been treated at a hospital after she inhaled smoke, they said. The fire, which started in a room on the fifth floor of the ...

As COVID-19 continues to spread around Japan, hospital beds are filling up and more infected people are calling ambulances, even if they are suffering from only minor symptoms. During the Bon ...