Yang Yang graduated from Tohoku University School of Medicine. She holds a number of qualifications, including a Japanese medical license, a Chinese medicine practitioner license, a doctoral degree in pathologic diagnosis from Tohoku University, an EMBA from Victoria University, Switzerland and a JMIP certified surveyor.
Yang received initial internal medicine training and pathology specialty training at St. Luke’s International Hospital, and underwent administrative training on hospital administration planning at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology, St. Luke’s Life Science Institute. With the motto of creating a system where culture and language would not form a medical barrier for patients and providing medical care that is both physically and mentally close to patients, she works to resolve culture and language barriers, payment guarantee, medical care quality, and other issues, and puts solutions into practice.
She has engaged in health check-up for foreign nationals living in Japan at St. Luke’s International Hospital Branch Clinic, St. Luke’s MediLocus, support for medical tourists coming to Japan, and overseas medical product development with insurance firms. She then set up an international medical cooperation division and created a scheme on medical tourism to Japan mostly for medical professionals. She also provided consulting services for tertiary hospitals in China on the launch of complete medical checkup facilities, and for Japanese medical institutions on the Chinese market, as well as coordination services for international academic conferences.