Japan

"Japan" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A country in eastern Asia, island chain between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, east of the Korean Peninsula. The capital is Tokyo.

Descriptor ID	D007564
MeSH Number(s)	Z01.252.474.463 Z01.639.595
Concept/Terms	Japan Japan

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Geographicals [Z]
Geographic Locations [Z01]
Asia [Z01.252]
Far East [Z01.252.474]
Japan [Z01.252.474.463]
Islands [Z01.639]
Japan [Z01.639.595]

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Japan
Tokyo

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Japan" by people in this website by year, and whether "Japan" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 245 publications over 26 distinct years, with a maximum of 23 publications in 2014

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Year	Minor Topic	Total
1998	1	1
1999	2	2
2002	5	5
2003	8	8
2004	6	6
2005	6	6
2006	10	10
2007	13	13
2008	13	13
2009	9	9
2010	7	7
2011	11	11
2012	14	14
2013	11	11
2014	23	23
2015	12	12
2016	9	9
2017	16	16
2018	19	19
2019	7	7
2020	13	13
2021	12	12
2022	4	4
2023	1	1
2024	8	8
2025	5	5

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Ishikawa K, Chambers JK, Kojima K, Hanamoto S, Nakashima K, Uchida K. Retrospective study of canine gastrointestinal tumors in Tokyo, Japan, 2012-2024. J Vet Med Sci. 2026 Jan 16; 88(1):131-139.

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Oikawa M, Otake T, Awatani T, Noguchi H, Kawamura A. Impacts of health checkup programs standardization on working-age self-employed and unemployed: Insights from Japan's local government response to national policy. J Health Econ. 2025 09; 103:103046.

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Fu R, Liu S, Oikawa M, Noguchi H, Kawamura A. Healthcare utilization among Japanese older adults during later stage of prolonged pandemic. Sci Rep. 2025 Apr 22; 15(1):13813.

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Rosano GMC, Teerlink JR, Kinugawa K, Bayes-Genis A, Chioncel O, Fang J, Greenberg B, Ibrahim NE, Imamura T, Inomata T, Kuwahara K, Moura B, Onwuanyi A, Sato N, Savarese G, Sakata Y, Sweitzer N, Wilcox J, Yamamoto K, Metra M, Coats AJS. The use of left ventricular ejection fraction in the diagnosis and management of heart failure. A clinical consensus statement of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC, the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA), and the Japanese Heart Failure Society (JHFS). Eur J Heart Fail. 2025 Jul; 27(7):1174-1187.

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Li M, Fujiyoshi A, Willcox BJ, Li J, Kadota A, Kadowaki S, Seto T, Kadowaki T, Chang Y, Evans R, Miura K, Edmundowicz D, Okamura T, Masaki KH, Ueshima H, Sekikawa A. Progression of aortic calcification among Japanese in Japan and white and Japanese Americans: a prospective cohort study. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2025 Jan 31; 26(2):273-279.

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Takamiya Y, Imanaga C, Abe I, Kobayashi K, Ike A, Kawamura A, Urata H. Long-term renoprotective effect of luseogliflozin in type 2 diabetes patients: CHikushi Anti-diabetes mellitus Trial-Lusefi (CHAT-Lu). Drug Discov Ther. 2025 Jan 14; 18(6):336-342.

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Chen R, Morris BJ, Donlon TA, Nakagawa K, Allsopp RC, Willcox BJ, Masaki KH. FOXO3 Longevity Genotype Mitigates Risk Posed by Hypertension on Incident Coronary Artery Disease in Middle-Aged Men: Kuakini Honolulu Heart Program. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2024 12 01; 79(12).

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Olshansky SJ, Willcox BJ, Demetrius L, Beltr?n-S?nchez H. Implausibility of radical life extension in humans in the twenty-first century. Nat Aging. 2024 Nov; 4(11):1635-1642.

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Chen R, Donlon TA, Morris BJ, Allsopp RC, Willcox BJ, Masaki KH. Association of alcohol with lung cancer risk in men with different growth hormone receptor genotypes. Lung Cancer. 2024 12; 198:107971.

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Matsumoto T, Masuda A, Harano H, Manabe S. Simulation study for design of long counter for standard neutron fields from 1?keV to 20?MeV at NMIJ/AIST. Radiat Prot Dosimetry. 2024 Aug 09; 200(13):1251-1257.

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