Japanese Language Medical Services

Our principal GP, Dr Joshua Jones is fluent in Japanese, having spent over 15 years studying Japanese. Originally from the rural township of Wangaratta in northeast Victoria, Dr Josh spent one year on exchange to a high school in Tokyo that he realised his interest in the Japanese language and culture. In the years since then, Josh has made countless trips to Japan for study, medical conferences and leisure.

In 2017, Dr Josh was the recipient of a Victorian Government scholarship to study Japanese at Waseda University in Tokyo. There, he studied Japanese intensively for six months and completely immersed himself in the Japanese language and culture for 18 months, and passed the highest level (N1) of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT).

Dr Josh is able to conduct his medical consultations entirely in Japanese, and has a strong network of Japanese-speaking healthcare professionals who can assist his Japanese-speaking patients navigate the Australian healthcare system.

Dr Josh loves helping his Japanese patients in all aspects of their health, and being able to help them in a language that his patients are comfortable with is even more rewarding – it is his way of giving back to a people and culture who has given him so much.

Our physiotherapist, Katsuhiro Inoue is also a native speaker of Japanese and consults in both Japanese and English.

Make an appointment with Dr Josh or Katsuhiro today.

If you require medical care in Japanese, or know someone who does, please get in touch for more information.