Japan's medical associations are different from China's. They have a strict hierarchical system, and the association's decisions can influence the establishment.
However, it must be said that Japan's Traditional Chinese Medicine industry is more developed than China's, and the quality of their herbal medicine is better.
But when it comes to medical skill, China's Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners are far superior to Japan's. There is no doubt about that.
Masters of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Japan really only began to appear in large numbers after the 1980s.
Around that time, a large amount of Kampo Medicine began to appear on the domestic market in China.
Don't assume that all the Chinese patent medicines we take are domestically produced. On the contrary, many are developed by Japanese companies.
Kampo Medicine is, in essence, the standardized, assembly-line version of Chinese herbal medicine.
