Word: kosaka
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meet their expenses, they are forced to take in more and more patients, which only increases expensive and lamentable overcrowding. Institutions that buy costly equipment often find it impossible to balance their books. Forty-three hospitals went bankrupt in 1982, double the number two years before. Says Dr. Kinori Kosaka, director of Toranomon Hospital: "Better medical treatment requires updated medical facilities, excellent doctors, nurses and technicians. But we can't charge extra. That is why it is so difficult to run a good hospital today...