Japanese nonprofit sends ambulance to rural Tanzania

An ambulance up for decommissioning after 10 years of service has a new lease of life in a village thousands of kilometers ...
Japan Today

Gov’t urges hospitals to reduce ambulance transportation for non-urgent cases

Japan’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency (FDMA) and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare have made an official appeal to local municipalities across the country to limit ambulance ...
India TV

Helicopter ambulance crashes into sea off Japan, patient among 3 dead

Japan helicopter crash: A medical transport helicopter crashed into the sea off the coast of southwestern Japan on Sunday, killing three people including a patient, while three others were rescued, ...
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Terminally ill man remodels ambulance for those with ALS

Told he had only three or four years to live, Ichiro Hatanaka decided to reach out to fellow sufferers of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and offer them use of a remodeled ambulance to take short ...
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Resident doctor in Japan hops ambulance to train station for private dinner

A Konan fire department ambulance is seen in Konan, Aichi Prefecture, on Dec. 21, 2022. (Mainichi/Shinichiro Kawase) KONAN, Aichi -- A doctor-in-training at a hospital here recently took an ambulance ...