OSAKA -- Henry Tanaka, a Colombian of Japanese descent, has been living and working in Japan for 20 years but has never become fluent in the local language. Hospital visits were always a challenge as he did not quite understand what the doctors were telling him.
But that changed after he found the Rinku General Medical Center, a hospital in Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture, with a special outpatient section for foreign nationals and Spanish interpreters on call.


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