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Originally Posted by GoNative
Of course there'd also be very few non Japanese doctors in this world who are also fluent in Japanese!
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I think this is probably the case more than anything else.
There are some places in Japan that would kill to hire doctors - any doctors - because of painful shortages... But there just aren`t many foreign doctors with the necessary qualifications available (Japanese fluency, Japanese certification). And the very few that are out there aren`t going to take a base doctor`s salary at a regular hospital where they`re really needed. They`re going to open a private clinic specializing in something where being foreign brings them prestige or extra business.
The foreign doctors I did encounter were in Red Cross hospitals - there may be some kind of thing done by Red Cross to train doctors for work in Japan. I`m not really sure.