Japanese firm, Chinese investor promote medical tours to Japan

It has decided to enter medical tourism as "demand for health-care products and medical services are growing among locals," the official said in a recent email interview with NNA.

Well if they have the cash to pay full price, more power to them. If they start using the already over-stressed public health system...no thank you!

“Media Kobo has expanded sales through an online fortune-telling service and extended its business to virtual reality game apps and cross-border e-commerce among other fields.”

Seems that the company is not that experienced in health care but frivolity.I’m not sure I want to trust my health to a company like this......

Japanese doctors? Er, no thanks. Save your money and go to Thailand for superior medical care.

China is said they are the world 2nd largest economy. They only have money.

In South Korea more doctors go after the lucrative beauty market than doctors caring for the ill which has created massive waiting times for operations there.... but you can get your nose "fixed" real quick.

It is time to thank China for the medical knowledge since ancient time, acupuncture, herbs, etc, that saved Japan as a nation and Japanese as people for the last 3000 years. I have heard that Taiji can cure men's problem, and Japanese men should try it.

Instead of sending more patients here, how about more doctors? Japan is the only country that has the most hospitals with the least doctors.

Media Kobo has expanded sales through an online fortune-telling service and extended its business to virtual reality game apps and cross-border e-commerce among other fields.

Yes, precisely the type of company I would rely on for proper healthcare.

Also, why come to Japan (where medical services are general no better than average) when you can go to a number of SE Asian countries where services are either way better or way cheaper.

Japan does have some very advanced medical techniques, most of which have been adopted from other countries. However, their physicians are nothing special. I went to a specialist skin care clinic in a major hospital a few years ago for a couple of skin cancers (I'm an Aussie). The doctor looked at them and said, "Hajimitte!" (the first time he had seen them). He disappeared for fifteen minutes and came back with half a dozen trainee doctors who all took their phones out and started taking pictures. He then took photos himself and told me to come back in six months. He started talking about skin grafts and plastic surgery to treat them. They were not melanoma. I went to Australia two months later and had them treated with liquid nitrogen (for free) with minimal scaring and they have not come back after three years.

Another case is one of my wife's friends had c-section birth two years ago. They opened her up from her belly button down to her nether regions leaving a 20cm scare. In other countries, the incision is not much bigger than an appendix scare and carefully placed below the bikini line.

There must be some terrible medical practices in China if they are coming to Japan for treatment.