{"id":622018,"date":"2026-04-21T19:31:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/622018\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:31:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:31:47","slug":"counseling-and-community-for-foreign-cancer-patients-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/622018\/","title":{"rendered":"Counseling and community for foreign cancer patients in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A leading cause of death worldwide, cancer is a disease that transcends borders, afflicting millions each year.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Japan can take solace in the fact that the medical industry is generally well-equipped to support individuals who receive a diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to cancer screenings and affordable treatment, Japan fares well compared with most other countries. The national health care system ranks 13th globally, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ceoworld.biz\/2025\/09\/21\/countries-with-the-best-health-care-systems-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CEOWorld Magazine\u2019s health care index<\/a>, and has a 94.99 score out of 100 for medicine availability and cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A leading cause of death worldwide, cancer is a disease that transcends borders, afflicting millions each year. Residents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,1617,1361,137,500,301466,1679,514,62062],"class_list":{"0":"post-622018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cancer","11":"tag-expats","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-healthcare","14":"tag-living-in-japan","15":"tag-medicine","16":"tag-mental-health","17":"tag-national-health-care"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622018","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=622018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}