A founder Masajirou Tazuke donated lots of his own money into Kyoto University because of a successful surgical treatment for empyema of the chest, that had suffered him for years. That was because he entrusted his dream to realize a highest medical treatment here in Osaka with Kyoto University. With his donation, the Tazuke Kofukai Foundation, Medical Research Institute was approved by Ministers of Education and Interior and established in Department of Medicine at Kyoto University in 1925.
In 1928, a mayor of Osaka City, Hajime Seki, sympathized with Seijirou’s effort and donated a land required for the hospital for clinical researches named "Kitano hospital".
Since then for 80 years, this institute has been expanding as a medical center, which immediately returns fruits of considerable researches from basic science to practical clinic to patients and contributes to advancements of medical science.

The mission of Tazuke Kofukai Medical Research Institute is to pursue the clinical research thoroughly. In another word, we are trying to clarify doubts and problems coming from daily practice, consider a linkage and an application with an up-to-date science, and return the results of researches to the wards as the latest treatment.
And, all the working staffs in The Tazuke Kofukai Medical Research Institute confirm this again, and go forward on medical studies and practices.

"About Kitano Hspital" was updated.
(November 10th, 2008)

"Center for Diabetes & Endocrinology" was updated.
(April 1st, 2008)

"Department of Hematology" was updated.
(February 14th, 2008)

"Department of Diabetes & Endocrinology" was updated.
(February 13th, 2008)

"Department of Diabetes & Endocrinology" was updated.
(January 22th, 2008)