Health

Access Dental Counseling
The first project directly operated by Japanese dentists in cooperation with Canadian counselors to consider the international environment surrounding dental practice.
http://www.accessdentalcounseling.net/

Brain Death and Transplantation in Japan
Ethical, legal, social implications on this topic.
http://www.lifestudies.org/specialreport01.html

English - Japanese Dictionary of Medical Terms
Includes several anatomical and medical terms and their counterparts in Japanese, all alphabetized.
http://www.pmcguam.com/resource/japandic.htm

International Mental Health Professionals Japan (IMPHPJ)
A multidisciplinary professional association of therapists who provide mental health services to the international communities in Japan. With database of professional therapists and forum.
http://www.imhpj.org/

Japan Medical Market Information and Consulting
Databases with Japan medical market information, equipment distributors, consultant services, Japanese translation/interpretor services, and metric/currency conversters.
http://japanbiomedical.com/main.html

Journal of Health Science
Covers all aspects of health science; published by the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan.
http://jhs.pharm.or.jp/home.htm

People's AIDS-Advocacy Movement of Japan and Africa
Group to share information of the Japanese governmental policy on global HIV/AIDS issues and international cooperation in health fields.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PAMOJA_JAPAN_AFRICA/

Risk/Benefit Assessment of Drugs - Analysis and Response
A Japanese organization that verifies and analyzes the benefits and risks of medicines and promotes their proper use.
http://www.rad-ar.or.jp/english/

Smoke Around The Rising Sun
Law professor's essay on tobacco regulations in Japan and the government's conflicts between protecting citizen's health and the massive cigarette tax revenues it receives. [PDF]
http://www.hawaii.edu/law/faculty/publications/smokerising97.pdf