#Medical

Surgical Robots Face Pushback due to Lost Hospital Profits

Healthtech Market Poised for Rapid Growth with Doubling Expected by 2030

Pitching Stars – Global Startup Night event report

iCONM in collaboration with BioLabs hosted Pitching Stars – Global Startup Night at TECH HUB YOKOHAMA. The event convened over 100 global participants, including biotech founders, investors, pharmaceutical executives, and life science leaders as part of BioJapan 2026.

Kyushu University and F.MED Begin Remote Surgery Robot Demonstration Using IOWN APN

Oral Mucosal Image Analysis System "Mucosight AI" Receives Regulatory Approval from Osaka University and Morita Tokyo

Connecting Japan and Ukraine Through Technology, Talent, and Business

Blackbox attended an event reporting on People Cloud and MUSVI’s visits to Ukraine, to report on the cross-border activities occurring as a result of the conflict there.

Metagen Therapeutics Raises 190 Million Yen from University-Affiliated Funds

Hiroshima University Hospital Introduces Japan's First "Mobile ICU" with Telehealth Capabilities

Health Data Acquisition Competition Intensifies in Digital Health Field

SoundWave Innovation Raises 2.65 Billion Yen in Series A Funding for Alzheimer's Treatment Device

Rohto Pharma Launches Wearable Medical Device for Overactive Bladder in China

Medtronic Launches "Touch Surgery Ecosystem" in Japan for Surgical Education

LPIXEL Receives Approval for Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Support AI

How Physical AI is transforming elder care in the world's most aged society

At first glance, the phrase “Japan and Physical AI” may sound somewhat paradoxical, since Japan is often ranked among the slowest adopters of AI technologies among advanced economies. Whether in generative AI utilization or software-based AI development, the country is frequently portrayed as having fallen behind the digital transformation wave. How, then, could Japan emerge as a leader in Physical AI?

Kansai Medical University, Tsukuba University, and Illumi Medical Launch Joint Research on Expanding Photoimmunotherapy to Deep Tissue Cancers

Medicaroid's Hinotori Robot Successfully Performs Surgery

Fem+ (FemPlus) 2026 — Empowering Women Through Every Stage of Life

Fem+ merges Femtech Tokyo and the Women’s Wellbeing Expo into Japan’s largest women’s-health trade fair. Note: the edition originally planned for June 2025 has been rescheduled to 27–29 May 2026 to allow a larger-scale relaunch under a new concept.

iCONM: Where the Future Biotech Takes Shape

Guest authors Hiroshi Atsumi & Miho Kiyokawa tell us about the vision and purpose of the Innovation Center of NanoMedicine (iCONM), a medical deeptech research hub in Kawasaki.

Understanding Japan’s medtech ecosystem: innovation, regulation, and opportunities for global startups

Japan’s MedTech ecosystem has been steadily gaining global attention. With strong collaboration between academia, government, and industry, the country has produced a growing number of startups developing advanced healthcare technologies. In this guest article we explore the characteristics of Japan’s MedTech ecosystem, the opportunities it presents for international startups, and the trends shaping the future of healthcare innovation in the country.

Investor Day Japan 2026

Global life-science startups pitch drug discovery innovations to investors, pharma leaders, and strategic partners.

10 global startups join Japan’s medical ecosystem

Kobe University opens bio research hub

Interview with Alvaro Rios of Kawatek: building the future of bionics in Japan

From Columbia to Mexico to the USA to Germany and then finally to Japan, Alvaro Rios sits down with Blackbox to talk about his company and why Japan makes sense for medtech and robotics startups... and some pitfalls to watch out for.

Japanese researcher recieves Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine