Miho Ohashi takes a lesson at the International Medical Interpreter Academy in Tokyo on July 23. | SATOKO KAWASAKI

For Japan's medical interpretation industry, tourism boom presents growing challenge
BY MAGDALENA OSUMI STAFF WRITER AUG 19, 2019

During one of her medical-interpreting lessons in July, teacher Yoshiko Ishizaka, 77, brought up the case of a former student who was dealing with schizophrenia.
The principal of Tokyo-based International Medical Interpreter Academy used the example to engage her class in a discussion on the difficulties of interpreting while assisting patients with complex mental conditions.