Japan’s medical tourism reach expands

 15-Dec-16, International Hospitals & Medical Tourism 

A number of changes are afoot in Japan as the country seeks to enhance its medical tourism footprint by helping patients further afield.

Image: Aizawa Healthcare International Ltd

Government incentives are prompting Japanese companies to look beyond the country’s borders. For example, the Japanese Government announced a push towards medical commercialisation in 2010, and this prompted Japanese companies and hospitals to open 19 medical services in 13 countries since this time.

With a view to broadening its client base, in 2015 Aizawa Hospital in Japan opened a clinic in Beiijing and hospitals in other cities have since approached it, requesting that it open more. 

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