Daughters of Changing Japan.

Changing incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma in Japan.

A trend in the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in Japan was studied from the data of the Osaka Cancer Registry (population, 8,512,351 in 1981) for the period of 1963-1983, the Vital Statistics of Japan, Ministry of Health and Welfare, and the Japan Autopsy Registry which contained 594,132 individually filed cases in the 26-year period from 1958 to 1983. Both cancer registry data and...

Sarcoidosis: changing clinical manifestation in Japan.

An increase in the number of patients with sarcoidosis in Japan has been recognized noticed in Japan since the 1960's. Sarcoidosis is a systemic disorder, the lesion of which is characterized as an epithelioid cell granuloma formation stimulated by unknown agents. In Japan, the majority of the patients show thoracic involvement which can easily be detected by annual check-up even when they are ...

The Changing US-Japan Security Alliance

Changing Fortune between Japan and China

Changing epidemiology of Angiostrongyliasis cantonensis in Okinawa prefecture, Japan.

*Corresponding author: Mailing address: Okinawa Prefectural Institute of Health and Environment, Ozato 2085, Ozato-son, Okinawa 901-1202, Japan. Fax: +81-98-945-9366, E-mail: [email protected] Okinawa Prefecture experienced an outbreak of angiostrongyliasis in January of 2000 (1). The origin of the infection’s outbreak could not be identified. We examined the past records of Angiostrongy...