Tenri Hospital is an international hospital in Tenri City, Nara Prefecture

Nara Prefecture

is a prefecture in the Kansai region on Honshū Island, Japan. The capital is the city of Nara.-History:The present-day Nara Prefecture was created in 1887, making it independent of Osaka Prefecture....

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. It was founded as part of the secular mission of Tenrikyo

Tenrikyo

Tenrikyo is a monotheistic religion originating in revelations to a 19th-century Japanese woman named Nakayama Miki, known as Oyasama by followers...

. In a nation where medical care

Health care in Japan

The health care system in Japan provides healthcare services, including screening examinations, prenatal care and infectious disease control, with the patient accepting responsibility for 30% of these costs while the government pays the remaining 70%...

 is often highly specialized and cross-specialist treatment can be difficult, Tenri Hospital founded and developed the first department of general medicine.

It is part of Tenrikyo's oyasato-yakata

Oyasato-yakata

The oyasato-yakata complex is a collection of buildings in Tenri City, Nara, Japan. that form an incomplete square on each side surrounding the Divine Residence , a structure sacred to the Japanese new religion Tenrikyo...

complex surrounding the Jiba, and it is built in the same syncretic style as the rest of the complex.