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Officials predicted yesterday that the Takemi Program in International Health--named for one of Japan's leading physicians--will play a major role in advancing worldwide efforts to resolve complicated health problems in the face of dwindling financial resources...
Several officials likened the Takemi program to the Mason Scholars program at the Kennedy School of Government, which for the past 25 years has helped train Third World leaders in matters of public policy relevant to their native lands...
...problem starts with the medical schools. Training emphasizes research rather than clinical practice. Schools are overcrowded, curriculums out of date, and students discontented to the point of periodic open rebellion. Dr. Taro Takemi, the outspoken president of the Japan Medical Association, damns the schools vehemently: "Today," he says, "they provide neither decent research nor decent clinical training...
Fire Escape. In Tokyo, arrested for setting fire to an express train, Takemi Konya explained that he had just flunked his university entrance exams, was merely trying to cheer himself...