School doctors in Japan ... despite the education ministry undertaking measures to ease such parental concerns over a year ago. According to a survey conducted in June by online medical ...

Perhaps no profession has stricter ethical standards than medicine, and ethics is considered essential in the education of ...

A former education ministry official ... says the problem is not only with Tokyo Medical University. He says Japan suffers from a severe shortage of doctors, citing OECD data.

The association released the results on April 18 of its study on the work styles of doctors at 81 university hospitals across Japan as commissioned by the education ministry. The study found ...

Mano Toshiki, a medical doctor and professor at Chuo University, says about 80 percent of Japan's hospitals are small or midsized private entities with limited human resources. The problem is two ...