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.
www.accessdentalcounseling.net/

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

English - Japanese Dictionary of Medical Terms - Includes several anatomical and medical terms and their counterparts in Japanese, all alphabetized.
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.
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.
japanbiomedical.com/main.html

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

Medicinal Cannabis - Group campaigns to make hemp a legal medicine.
www.taima.org/en/iryotaima.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.
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.
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]
www.hawaii.edu/law/faculty/publications/smokerising97.pdf