Health
This category is for sites on health related issues in Japan.
- Fukuoka 福岡
- Gunma 群馬
- Tokyo 東京
- Beauty and Cosmetic Services
- Fitness
- Organizations 団体
Access Dental Counseling
- The first project directly operated by Japanese dentists in cooperation with Canadian counselors to consider the international environment surrounding dental practice.http://www.accessdentalcounseling.net/
Brain Death and Transplantation in Japan
- Ethical, legal, social implications on this topic.http://www.lifestudies.org/specialreport01.html
English - Japanese Dictionary of Medical Terms
- Includes several anatomical and medical terms and their counterparts in Japanese, all alphabetized.http://www.pmcguam.com/resource/japandic.htm
International Mental Health Professionals Japan (IMPHPJ)
- A multidisciplinary professional association of therapists who provide mental health services to the international communities in Japan. With database of professional therapists and forum.http://www.imhpj.org/
Japan Medical Market Information and Consulting
- Databases with Japan medical market information, equipment distributors, consultant services, Japanese translation/interpretor services, and metric/currency conversters.http://japanbiomedical.com/main.html
Journal of Health Science
- Covers all aspects of health science; published by the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan.http://jhs.pharm.or.jp/home.htm
Medicinal Cannabis
- Group campaigns to make hemp a legal medicine.http://www.taima.org/en/iryotaima.htm
National Health Insurance Systems
- Description of Japanese government health care insurance systems from the Japanese Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association.http://www.jpma.or.jp/12english/guide_industry/healthcare/healthcare.html
People's AIDS-Advocacy Movement of Japan and Africa
- Group to share information of the Japanese governmental policy on global HIV/AIDS issues and international cooperation in health fields.http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PAMOJA_JAPAN_AFRICA/
Risk/Benefit Assessment of Drugs - Analysis and Response
- A Japanese organization that verifies and analyzes the benefits and risks of medicines and promotes their proper use.http://www.rad-ar.or.jp/english/
Smoke Around The Rising Sun
- Law professor's essay on tobacco regulations in Japan and the government's conflicts between protecting citizen's health and the massive cigarette tax revenues it receives. [PDF]http://www.hawaii.edu/law/faculty/publications/smokerising97.pdf