Our Doctor and How We Write About Medicine
Almona Clinic · Tokyo
Our doctor & how we write about medicineDr. Itsuki Nakayama
All English-language medical content on this site is written and reviewed by a licensed physician at Almona Clinic. This page sets out who that is, and what they are qualified in.
Background
Dr. Nakayama graduated from Juntendo University School of Medicine and trained in general internal medicine, anaesthesiology and surgery at Juntendo University Hospital before moving into aesthetic and preventive medicine. He has completed the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare’s designated training for online medical care, which is the qualification that governs the online consultations offered to visitors.
Training and clinical background
- Juntendo University School of Medicine, MD
- Juntendo University Hospital — General Internal Medicine, Anaesthesiology, Surgery
- Juntendo University Nerima Hospital
- Toshima Hospital, Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Medical Treatment Corporation
- Inoue Hospital — Internal Medicine, Surgery
- Shonan Beauty Clinic (Shimbashi Ginza-guchi / Akihabara)
- Clinical fellowship, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Australia
Societies and certifications
- Member, Japanese Society of Internal Medicine (日本内科学会)
- Member, Japan Society of Aesthetic Surgery (美容外科学会)
- Full member, Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine (日本再生医療学会)
- Full member, Japanese Society of Anti-Aging Regenerative Medicine (再生医療抗加齢学会)
- Certified occupational physician (産業医)
- Completed the MHLW-designated training for online medical care (厚生労働省指定オンライン診療研修修了)
- ICLS provider, Japanese Association for Acute Medicine
- BLS provider, American Heart Association
- Allergan-certified injector — hyaluronic acid and botulinum toxin
- Certified in testosterone therapy
Books
Publications
『人生100年時代の医療革命』 (The Medical Revolution for the 100-Year Life: How Preventive and Regenerative Medicine Are Changing the Way We Live, English title translated by us), published by 星章舎, September 2026.
Co-authored with Dr. Kenta Umeki, the clinic’s chief technical physician. Written in Japanese for general readers, the book explains preventive medicine and regenerative (stem-cell) medicine, and how the clinic approaches them.
The clinic’s full physician listing, in Japanese, is on our doctors page.
Editorial policy
How our English medical content is produced
- Primary sources only for anything regulatory. Where we describe a rule — what you may bring into Japan, what a medicine is approved for, what a customs authority requires — we quote and link the authority itself: the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the PMDA, Singapore’s Health Sciences Authority, US Customs and Border Protection.
- A named physician reviews every article before publication, and again when it is updated.
- Each article carries the date it was last verified. Regulations and prices change; we re-check the sources and update the date rather than leaving old information in place.
- We do not publish patient testimonials, before-and-after photographs, or comparisons claiming that our clinic is superior to others. Japan’s medical advertising guidelines prohibit them, and they apply to our English pages exactly as they do to our Japanese ones.
Nothing on this site is a substitute for a consultation. Whether a treatment is appropriate for you is a decision for a doctor who has assessed you.
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- Taking Mounjaro home from Japan
- Mounjaro in Japan: a guide for foreign residents
- Seeing a doctor in Tokyo as an international visitor
- Is Mounjaro right for you?
- Mounjaro side effects and the first month
- Travelling with Mounjaro
- Botox in Tokyo as a visitor: timing, aftercare and flying
- Korean Botox vs Allergan: the two products we use
Treatments
Treatments and booking
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