Thank you very much for visiting our homepage, Division of Gastroenterology, Department 
of Internal Medicine & Therapeutics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine. 

  If you are interested in our own research, particularly research in GI, you are in the right 
place. If you are interested in visiting our lab, please let me know. We also welcome a 
potential collaborators. Please send any information to me and let me examine your 
research plans. Although we can NOT garantee you a visit to Osaka University, we will do as 
much as can. However, please keep in mind the following limitation:

  In general, we do NOT hire post-doctoral fellows or technicians for research　in regular 
basis. We sometimes accept MDs who wish to study in the graduate school and to obtain 
PhD degree. We also welcome foreign doctors who wish to stay and collaborate with us in a 
short-term. If you are one of such persons, please let us know. 

  If you are interested in being trained for clinical practice in the Osaka University School 
of Medicine (as a medical school student), you are in the wrong place. You should visit 
Osaka University Homepage (http://www.osaka-u.ac.jp/eng/index.html), read the admission 
policy of medical school there, and ask administrative officers on availability of such 
positions for clinical education. We can NOT arrange you a Japanese medical (clinical) 
license, which is given by the Japanese government after clinical education including clinical 
clearkships and the national examination. We also recommend you to ask your geverment 
for a possibility for exchange students.