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The paper sketches out the traditional East Asian medical system and its role in contemporary Japan. Potential advantages of tradional medicine for geriatric care. The paper concludes that for traditional medicine to be succesfully applied to the elderly population of Japan, much more systematic education in its uses in both undergraduate and graduate medical education is necessary

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