Tanabe TakujiPresident
Our corporation has its origins in a small clinic called Tanabe Clinic, which opened in 1979 to provide radiology and internal medicine services, with the aim of identifying diseases early through diagnostic imaging. The clinic was in high demand, conducting medical examinations and diagnostic tests within its own facilities, as well as X-ray examinations for other facilities without X-ray equipment; however, at one point, the director felt the limitations of what a single physician could do. He realized that by organizing multiple doctors as a team, medical care could provide better support to more patients. So, he gathered his colleagues, and embodied the concepts of preventive medicine and imaging diagnosis in an expansive way. This has indeed become the foundation of Medical Corporation Chiinkai today. In Chinese folklore, “Chiin (zhīyīn)” means “close friend”. It represents our strong desire to provide more specialized medical care thorough active collaboration with other medical institutions as our “close friends”.
We opened Oike Clinic in 1990 as Japan’s first shared-use diagnostic imaging center/comprehensive health screening center. In 2003, it became the nation’s pioneer in introducing PET, which is used for staging and early identification of cancer. Since then, it has been equipped with the latest diagnostic equipment, receiving requests for imaging tests from 1,800 medical institutions nationwide. Furthermore, it has conducted general and comprehensive health screenings for more than 20,000 customers annually.
Subsequently, we opened Nakanoshima Clinic in Osaka in 2007 and Oike Clinic Ladies Plaza, the first women-only health screening facility in the Kansai area, in 2022.
At Oike Clinic Ladies Plaza, all tests are carried out by female staff, who delicately respond to the physical concerns and worries unique to women.
More than 40 years have passed since the establishment of Tanabe Clinic, and the medical field has evolved. The previous concept of medicine was “to treat a disease after it has occurred”, but today we believe that “there is nothing better than early identification and treatment”, and will continue to go forward on the path of preventive medicine.
To date, over 780,000 people have undergone health screenings at Medical Corporation Chiinkai. We are proud of the fact that our medical technology and services have been highly evaluated by our customers.
In the hope that people overseas will also experience the medical technology and services we have cultivated in Kyoto and Osaka, we established a department dedicated to serving international customers in 2023. We invite you to experience a practice of preventive medicine unparalleled anywhere in the world.
