Akihiko Ozaki, M.D., Ph.D. Physician at the Medical Governance Research Institute 10 Years After the Disaster: A New Phase for Community Healthcare Fourteen years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake. Iwaki City in Fukushima Prefecture, which felt the dual impact of the tsunami and the nuclear accident, has seen its population dwindle from over 350,000 to approximately 320,000 today—a continuous decline of about 4,500 people every year. It has been seven years since I began...

Tetsuya Tanimoto, MD. Chairman of Accessible Railway Medical Services Tetsuikai Medical Corporation. Director of Navitas Clinic Kawasaki In May, the drug-pricing policy announced by the Trump administration went beyond a simple reduction in U.S. drug prices and took on the nature of a global political and economic strategy. Its impact is expected to ripple across the entire global pharmaceutical system. Behind the policy, which aims to align U.S. drug prices with those of countries whose...

Akihiko Ozaki, M.D., Ph.D. Physician at the Medical Governance Research Institute To explain it again, "Chokubi" is a term for doctors who go "straight" or “direct” ( choku ) into aesthetic medicine ( bi ) immediately after finishing their initial clinical residency, without first passing through a university medical department or a general hospital. Reports last year indicated that several hundred doctors annually are choosing this path. I (the author) have been interested in this problem...