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As Japan gears up for its next drug pricing reform in April 2020, Shoji Kono, director of the National Federation…

Pharmaceutical sales per rep in Japan, a yardstick for “productivity” at drug makers, reached a record 172 million yen in FY2018, up 20 million yen from five years ago, as companies continue ramping up their job-shedding drive in a bid…

An adult man who completed the administration of an investigational drug in a Japan PI study conducted by Eisai has died. Whether there was a causal relationship between the drug and the subject’s death remains unclear at the present time,…

Riding on the back of an improved regulatory environment in China, major Japanese drug makers are moving to expand their businesses in the world’s second largest pharma market. Companies are pumping up their new drug pipelines, while forging solid sales…

Japan’s generic market is hitting a plateau soon. Incentive measures rolled out by the government since 2002 have driven its…

Some seven years in the making, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) finally rolled out a cost-effectiveness assessment…

Japan will go ahead with the introduction of a cost-effectiveness assessment (CEA) scheme for drugs and medical devices in April…

Jascha Heifetz, widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time, was once stopped, on 57th Street in Manhattan, by a pedestrian asking, “Could you tell me how to get to Carnegie Hall?” Heifetz pondered the question for…