• Tokyo Women’s Medical University
• Nagasaki Universary
• National Center for Child Health and Development
• University of Toyama
• Kyushu University
• International University of Health and Welfare
• Mie University

Tokyo Women’s Medical University

He visited the Mongolian Cancer Center and collaborated with the Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery Department of the Cancer Center, and subsequently held 11 Japan-Mongolia Gastrointestinal Cancer Symposium in Ulaanbaatar. In addition, he gave lectures and surgical guidance in the Philippines, Mongolia, Nepal, India, Vietnam, Myanmar, Kazakhstan, and Serbia.
In 2019, he was awarded the Order of the Mongolian North Star by the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary of the President of Mongolia in recognition of his contributions to promoting clinical research in cancer surgical treatment in cooperation with the Mongolian Cancer Center and his activities in training doctors and specialists.
(Cited from: https://www.twmu.ac.jp/univ/news/detail.php?kbn=1&ym=201909&cd=721)

 

Nagasaki Universary

With the goal of establishing living donor liver transplantation as a stable medical treatment in Kazakhstan, the Nagasaki University team visited Almaty, Kazakhstan, in July 2012 to support a total of 10 living donor liver transplants. Since then, the team has continued to accept graduate students under an academic agreement and provide guidance to younger students. He also established a living donor liver transplant in Georgia and provided surgical guidance and accepted surgeons in Myanmar.
(Cited from: https://www.surgery2.med.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/newtopics/)

Recently, he was asked by JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) to train personnel at the La Paz Quaternary Hospital (tertiary function) in Bolivia from 2024, and accepted and trained two surgeons for six months.

 
 

National Center for Child Health and Development

Since the launch of the organ transplant program at the National Center for Child Health and Development in 2005, the program has been accepting surgical visitors from Japan and abroad; over the eight years from January 2015 to the end of 2023, 264 domestic and 76 international participants have been trained. Brain-dead organ transplants are religiously difficult to perform, especially in Muslim countries such as Egypt, where people were buried with mummies in the past. This is because when mummies are created, organs other than the heart are stored in canopic jars and prayers are made for a peaceful journey to the afterlife, so removing organs after death is irreverent, and organ failure is inevitably treated mainly through living body transplantation.
We have accepted trainees from these countries and have been instrumental in setting up pediatric living donor liver transplant programs in their home countries. He has provided surgical training in pediatric living donor liver transplantation in Egypt, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Mongolia, Qatar, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, China, Costa Rica, Mexico, and other countries. The three supervising surgeons at the Center share the responsibility for overseas surgical training, and one young transplant surgeon accompanies them to experience overseas medical conditions and to remain in the country for one week after surgery for postoperative management and participation in local surgeries. This may sound like strict guidance, but since surgical cases are concentrated in overseas facilities, the young surgeons can experience a large number of general and pediatric surgeries during their one-week stay, and I am proud to say that this is a very promising educational program for young surgeons.
(Cited from: https://www.ncchd.go.jp/hospital/about/section/special/about.html)

 

University of Toyama

In October 2024, a group of doctors including Dr. Song, Director of Vietnam 108 Military Central Hospital, visited the University of Toyama Hospital. An international medical agreement was concluded with Vietnam 108 Military Central Hospital, and in April of the same year, Professor Tsutomu Fujii and Dr. Kazuto Shibuya of the Second Department of Surgery gave a lecture in Vietnam. In the past, Professor Ichiro Yasuda of the Third Department of Internal Medicine visited Vietnam to teach endoscopy.
(Cited from: https://toyama-surgery2.com/news/topic/56)

 

Kyushu University

In August 2023, endoscopists, surgeons, radiologists, pathologists, oncologists, and clinical engineers from Kyushu University Hospital visited the Mongolian Hospital in Japan to observe and provide medical guidance. This project, "Human Resource Development of Gastrointestinal Disease Treatment in Mongolia,” is conducted by Kyushu University as a project for promoting international deployment of medical technology (click here for the report) .
(Cited from: https://plaza.umin.ac.jp/ovex/about/project/)

 

International University of Health and Welfare

Since its opening in 1995, the university has accepted international students mainly from Asian countries and nurtured leaders in the medical and welfare fields in their home countries. The university has a particularly deep relationship with Vietnam, where it has formed alliances with four universities: Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hanoi Medical University, Hue University of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences. In addition, the University opened the first full-fledged Japanese-style human health checkup center in the country, the International University of Health and Welfare Doc Health Checkup Center (HECI), in collaboration with the National Cho Lai Hospital.
The University's Faculty of Medicine, which opened in 2017, accepted a cumulative total of 34 outstanding students from Hanoi Medical University, Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy, and Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy under the IUHW Faculty of Medicine Scholarship Program. It is noteworthy that all six Vietnamese students, who six years ago were completely unable to speak Japanese, overcame the world-class curriculum, in which most of the first and second year classes are taught in English and then in Japanese, to successfully obtain Japanese national medical qualifications in March of this year. From now on, every year, four to five graduates of the University's Faculty of Medicine will return to Vietnam as doctors who will contribute to the future medical field in Vietnam.
Furthermore, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Japan-Vietnam diplomatic relations, the University held the "International Medical Cooperation Symposium Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Establishment of Japan-Vietnam Diplomatic Relations” on September 29, 2023, jointly with National Cho Lai Hospital and Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences. In addition, a special two-week training program at a medical and welfare facility was arranged, and 50 doctors, nurses, rehabilitation workers, students, and others involved in medical care were invited to Japan. It is hoped that the medical professionals who will be responsible for the future of Vietnam will learn from this special program, and that it will serve as a bridge between Japan and Vietnam in the medical field in the future.

(Cited from: https://www.iuhw.ac.jp/feature/international/cooperation.html)
(Reference: Slide "Aiming to build an ideal partnership between Vietnam and Japan in the clinical field” presented by Professor Osamu Itano at the "International Medical Cooperation Symposium Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Establishment of Vietnam-Japan Diplomatic Relations” on Friday, September 29, 2023)

 

Mie University

Mie University Graduate School of Medicine has been implementing the "Special Program for Priority Placement of Government-Sponsored International Students” to accept graduate students from partner universities in Asia and Africa, and the third phase of the program was adopted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2022.
In June 2023, Professor Mizuno (supervised by Dr. Chipaila Jackson) of the Department of Hepatobiliary and Transplant Surgery and Professor Sawada (supervised by Dr. Jane Kabwe) of the Department of Pediatrics visited the University of Zambia and had discussions on the promotion of academic exchange in the future.

（Cited from:  Mie University School of Medicine News No.191)