{"id":363997,"date":"2025-12-22T06:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T06:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/363997\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T06:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T06:34:10","slug":"medical-tourism-comes-to-japan-with-new-pilot-project-near-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/363997\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical tourism comes to Japan with new pilot project near airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/travel-leisure\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Travel &amp; Leisure<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Railway operator Keikyu, travel agency JTB aim for full launch in FY2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20251205 Keikyu and JTB medical tourism pilot tour\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A medical tour participant is accompanied by an interpreter to hear her comprehensive health checkup results. (Photo by Yurika Yoneda)<\/p>\n<p>YURIKA YONEDA<\/p>\n<p>December 22, 2025 11:25 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; With Japan&#8217;s life expectancy among the world&#8217;s highest and its rapidly growing popularity as a tourist destination, a domestic travel agency and a railway operator have teamed up with a hospital to promote medical tourism near Tokyo&#8217;s Haneda Airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travel &amp; Leisure Railway operator Keikyu, travel agency JTB aim for full launch in FY2026 A medical tour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25253,64,63,197978,137,500,941,8122,3127,1160,25227,6771],"class_list":["post-363997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-airport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-comes","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-japan","tag-medical","tag-new","tag-pilot","tag-project","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}