Thank you for visiting my page. My work and research interests revolve around Healthcare Management which I attribute to my upbringing in a small town in the countryside of Gifu, Japan where my family and I experienced several difficulties finding good medical services and a nursing facility for my late grandmother. This led me to […]
Super-Aged Society and Senior Business
One of the social activities that I have engaged myself in these past two years is being part of a third-party committee that deals with incidents and complaints mainly from insured patients utilizing Long-term Care service in an Osaka’s municipality. It was so surprising for me to find out that, according to information from the […]
Women directors and firm performance in UK FTSE 350 : Implication for Japanese firms
The United Kingdom,which I often focus my research on in relation to health care, is also well-knownas one of the countries with the highest level of social participation forwomen along with Scandinavian countries and most western European countries. TheUK corporate Governance Code 2012 and social movements such as the establishmentof “The 30% club (https://30percentclub.org/)” recommends […]
Why is there a shortage of medical doctors in the Japanese healthcare market?
Japan is already commonly known as a rapidly aging country. According to life expectancy at birth from OECD health data 2014, Japanese men live up to 80.5 years old while women live up to 86.8 years old on average. Contributions in the national health insurance system of Japan only serve as further proof of this. […]
The State of Quality for Care Services in Japanese Public Nursing Homes
Here in Japan, care services in nursing homes are often availed of by families for their elderly loved ones for the final stages in their lives instead of keeping them home. However, while public nursing homes offer convenience in reducing the burden and pressure of looking after an elderly family member, they have also been […]
Mixed Method Study on Caregiver Turnovers: A Qualitative Analysis on Turnovers in Nursing Homes and Quantitative Analysis on Prefectural Plans for Nursing Homes
A Comparison between the Turnover Rate of Care Workers and Other Industries Japan has often been thought of as having a high turnover rate for care workers. As a matter of fact, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, on of the most popular newspapers in the country with approximately 3 million subscribers in Japan alone, reported this […]