{"id":316324,"date":"2026-03-01T13:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/316324\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T13:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:18:09","slug":"japans-hospitals-expand-foreign-patient-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/316324\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s hospitals expand foreign patient care"},"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\">Inbound tourism drives multilingual services as providers grapple with costs and unpaid bills<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/5\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20260218 Hakuba Chinese patients\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A Chinese parent and child consult a doctor in English at Hakuba International Clinic in Nagano prefecture. (Photo by Utako Kawakami)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">NAGANO, Japan &#8212; A growing number of medical institutions in Japan are strengthening systems to treat foreign patients, driven by a surge in tourists from overseas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travel &amp; Leisure Inbound tourism drives multilingual services as providers grapple with costs and unpaid bills A Chinese&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[6934,22146,21743,163,521,1307,85,46,6198,41150],"class_list":["post-316324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-care","tag-expand","tag-foreign","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-hospitals","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-japans","tag-patient"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}