By city: filings in 10 major cities

Stem cell clinics in Japan are concentrated in a handful of cities. The table below shows how many institutions have filed with the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in each, and how many of their websites we have reviewed. All figures come from the official register.

City Institutions Filings Websites reviewed
Tokyo Tokyo 315 832 275
Osaka Osaka 107 248 84
Fukuoka Fukuoka 39 102 31
Nagoya Aichi 26 56 21
Kobe Hyogo 25 44 21
Sapporo Hokkaido 12 35 9
Kyoto Kyoto 19 33 17
Yokohama Kanagawa 19 26 17
Hiroshima Hiroshima 2 2 2
Sendai Miyagi 1 1 0

The score measures website disclosure only. It does not measure treatment outcomes, physician skill or patient satisfaction. A low score means we could read little from the website, not that the institution is poor.