Japan to accept wounded Ukrainian soldiers for treatment

If you are a homeless Japanese, you can’t access medical facilities without a registered address. But if you are Ukrainian, you own the world it seems. I guess they will come on private jets. Poland, Ukraine’s biggest local supporter is a couple of hours on a very cheap train.

The plan will have to be handled carefully. If those treated are sent back to the frontline after recovery, it could be perceived as providing combat capability to another country.

I think this sounds like a bit of a reach. Let Japan help treat the injured.

Smart move, and thank you.

If you are a homeless Japanese, you can’t access medical facilities without a registered address.

What do you base this assumption off of? If you are talking about health insurance, there is a difference. Sure the local privately run clinic may do nothing, but there are ways for even the homeless to get treated.

It's a matter of whether or not they make the choice to go to the required hospital.

Educate yourself to reality, before you write things in your ignorance.

What about helping your own people first??..

Kishi Kun..

Make sense. Japan has the best health care in the world.

one merit to this I think is that it would also be a good learning experience for the military medical team to treat these kinds of battle trauma and injuries.

Perhaps Japan could similarly transport medical technicians overseas . . . .

Homeless people in Japan do not have health insurance but can access health care if they apply to go on welfare.

several soldiers will be accepted at the Self-Defense Forces Central Hospital in Tokyo as early as next month for medical care and physical therapy, the sources said.

several=3+ at a private hospital which does not provide for the general public.

Japan is way behind other civilised countries in the amount of aid it is providing to Ukraine. If weapons are out of the question because of export regulations, this is a good alternative.

obladiToday  07:05 am JST

The plan will have to be handled carefully. If those treated are sent back to the frontline after recovery, it could be perceived as providing combat capability to another country.

I think this sounds like a bit of a reach. Let Japan help treat the injured.

Agree it would be a reach. But would you trusr Russia to not do it?

If you are a homeless Japanese, you can’t access medical facilities without a registered address.

If that homeless person had joined the SDF they could access the medical facilities. It's not for every Ukrainian.

But if you are Ukrainian, you own the world it seems.

Yeah, getting healthcare totally makes up for having your country decimated.

I guess they will come on private jets.

You don't know that. If they are, it is because Russia injured them so badly they can't take a regular plane.

Poland, Ukraine’s biggest local supporter is a couple of hours on a very cheap train.

Poland shouldn't have to do everything. Other countries should be able to help.

Good for Japan, and good for the Ukrainians. Any little bit of physical and morale help Japan gives Ukraine will be warmly appreciated.

Poland, Ukraine’s biggest local supporter is a couple of hours on a very cheap train.

You clearly have zero clue about the enormous help Poland is giving to their Ukrainian friends. They have accepted by far the most displaced Ukrainian victims. They cannot do it all alone. Fortunately the brave Ukrainians have many friends - Japan included.

Yes - the usual Japan-bashers/fascist Russia supporters will continue to cry about it.

What about helping your own people first??..

No worries, they are being helped. Number of injured Japanese soldiers going without medical treatment right now: Zero

Great! But any chance you can send Ukraine something that goes bang? preferably on a Russian tank, Russian fighter, or even a rifle, shells, artillery, APCs? etc etc

So several Ukrainian soldiers will be accepted and the government may not even pay the costs.

Offering medical care is a great idea but considering these circumstances it hardly seems worthy of a news story. It seems more like a public relations campaign by a country that realizes its contributions have been minor.

> 3 cheers for the Japanese taxpayer!!!

Dont want to sound rude but EU has been doing it for ages now and no one blames them of providing combat capability to another country...

Poland’s capabilities are also not limitless

help if you want to help, dont help if you dont want just dont make silly excuses

Japan has taken in 2,300 Ukrainian refugees. The UK has taken in 161,000.

When calculated per capita, the UK has taken 140 times the number Japan has.

I’m glad to see this. Military and other doctors need this experience and Ukraine needs or will likely need places for their wounded to be treated over a longer term. I hope that they allow visitors. If they are in the Tokyo area, I will make the effort to go visit them. I follow a Canadian medic that is volunteering in Ukraine. He hit a landmine in a vehicle and was hospitalized. Lots of people he didn’t know went to visit him. Ukrainian soldiers deserve the same.

They'd better clear up some more space. At the rate Zelensky is feeding his conscripts into the meat grinder at Artemovsk (formerly Bakhmut), the assigned ward/s will be full in no time - it's one of the key reasons the "spring counter offensive" has been postponed till summer (it won't ever take place).

Tokyo would be more productive, save more lives, trying to bring the belligerents together at the peace table for a negotiated settlement. But stop the killing... no no no...

They'd better clear up some more space. At the rate Zelensky is feeding his conscripts into the meat grinder at Artemovsk (formerly Bakhmut), the assigned ward/s will be full in no time

See, what Putin and his supporters never understand is that people will go to extreme lengths to avoid enslavement. It's why Ukraine has done so well against Russian conscripts who know they shouldn't be there.

Tokyo would be more productive, save more lives, trying to bring the belligerents together at the peace table for a negotiated settlement. But stop the killing... no no no...

You'll have your negotiations as soon as the land bridge is gone and Russia's humiliation is complete.

Lots of homeless people needing medical care. People living alone needing mental health.