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About Medi Face, Ltd.
Company Profile
Corporate Information
| Company Name | Medi Face, Ltd. (株式会社Medi Face) | ||||
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| Head Office | 7F Nihonbashi Mizuno Building, 1-11-12 Nihonbashi Muromachi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo | ||||
| Group Capital | JPY 151,704,900 (Medi Face, Ltd. JPY 10,704,900 + Legal Doctor, Inc. JPY 141,000,000) |
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| CEO / Executive Physician | Toru Chikazawa, M.D. | ||||
| Contact | hello@medi-face.co.jp | ||||
| Business | Planning, research, development, production, distribution, maintenance, management, operation, and sales of medical and healthcare-related software and systems leveraging artificial intelligence, as well as outsourced services in these areas. | ||||
Partner Doctors
Meet the exceptional partner physicians who power Medi Face.
PsychiatristDr. Shion Kabasawa
Medi Face Supervising Physician · Psychiatry on YouTube
Graduated from Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine. Studied at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago for three years from 2004, conducting research on depression and suicide. With the vision of "preventing mental illness through the dissemination of psychiatric knowledge and information," he has been sending information to a cumulative audience of 700,000 people through YouTube and newsletters. Author of "Aputputo Taizan" (Output Bible) and 40 other books, with a cumulative circulation of 2 million copies.
Occupational PhysicianDr. Setsuko Taneichi
M.D., Ph.D. · Psychiatry Specialist · Certified Occupational Physician
Graduated from Kagawa Medical University (now Kagawa University) School of Medicine and completed her doctorate at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine. After working at Kokuritsu Iwakuni Hospital and as an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo Health Care Center, she is currently a specially appointed assistant professor at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Education. She concurrently serves as a certified occupational physician for several corporations and has extensive clinical experience in psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine.
Licensed Clinical PsychologistYuka Mukai
Licensed Clinical Psychologist · Certified Psychologist · Director, Counseling Office Progress
After 19 years of clinical experience across medical, educational, and occupational fields — including Sapporo Medical University Hospital, school counseling, vocational and medical college lecturing, and corporate counseling — she established her own practice in 2016. She continues to work clinically at universities and hospitals, while also serving as a corporate counselor and focusing on mental health measures for individuals and organizations. Member of the Japanese Association of Clinical Psychology and the Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology.
OB-GYNDr. Ayako Miwa
Director, THIRD CLINIC GINZA · OB-GYN Specialist · Certified Occupational Physician
Graduated from Sapporo Medical University and joined the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Juntendo University. She is an OB-GYN specialist, certified mammography reading physician, and certified occupational physician who conducts medical article supervision. As a board member of the "Preventive Medicine Popularization Association," she appears in numerous media to disseminate information on women's unique health issues. Co-authored with Takafumi Horie "Changing Women's Healthcare Will Change Japan's Economy."
PhysicianDr. Hiroaki Kato
Entrepreneur / MBA · Specialist in Telemedicine, AI, and Digital Health
Graduated from Hamamatsu University School of Medicine. Joined the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in 2016, where he worked on policy planning for medical ventures. He has a cross-sectoral understanding of the "clinical setting," "healthcare policy," and "business," and engages in business development and support in the health-tech sector. He concurrently serves as an advisor to the Ministry of Health's Medical Venture Support, an advisor to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's Healthcare Innovation Hub, a university lecturer, an outside director of listed companies, and a committee member of academic societies and government bodies.
PsychiatristDr. Shun Michitsuka
Director, Boshunjunkai Medical Corporation · Director, Kawasaki Kokoro Clinic · Designated Psychiatric Physician · Psychiatry Specialist
Withdrew from Keio University Graduate School and transferred to Asahikawa Medical University School of Medicine. After careers as a government official, secretary to politicians (Asahikawa mayor and member of parliament), and author, he became a physician. He completed clinical training at Hokkaido University Hospital and Asahikawa City Hospital, then advanced to a psychiatry specialist program at Tokyo Medical and Dental University (now Tokyo University of Science) Hospital and Hatsushima Hospital. He obtained certification as a Designated Psychiatric Physician and Psychiatry Specialist. Currently serves as Director of Boshunjunkai Medical Corporation and Director of Kawasaki Kokoro Clinic, while also working as a university lecturer.
PsychiatristDr. Makoto Natsume
Professor Emeritus, Osaka Shoin Women's University · Psychiatry Specialist · Certified Occupational Physician
After serving as Director of the Osaka Prefectural Mental Health and Welfare Center, he became a professor and then professor emeritus at Osaka Shoin Women's University Graduate School. He has long worked as a psychiatry specialist and certified occupational physician for Yomiuri TV, MBS, Sankei Shimbun, Descente, and others, supporting employee health consultations and return-to-work programs and promoting mental health improvement. Former president of the Japanese Society for Occupational Stress Research, Psychiatry Specialist of the Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology, and Certified Occupational Physician of the Japan Medical Association.
Psychiatrist, Occupational PhysicianAI Doctor
Developed by Medi Face, Ltd. · AI-Powered Doctor
Born in 2021. An AI-based doctor that has learned the clinical knowledge and experience of Medi Face's top doctors in psychiatry and occupational medicine, and continues to evolve every day. From the early days of development, it has pursued the vision of "realizing a society where everyone can equally access psychiatric medical knowledge," providing chat-based counseling and corporate mental health support. Now deployed to over 100 corporate clients, handling tens of thousands of conversations monthly. Based on the latest psychiatry, neuroscience, behavioral economics, and statistical data, it visualizes the structures behind "emotions" and "behaviors," delivering science-based reassurance to those in need. AI — yet more than just AI. That is Medi Face's AI Doctor.
Executive Doctor
CEO & Founder
Medi Face, Ltd.
CEO & Executive Physician
Toru Chikazawa, M.D.
Allow me to greet you as Executive Physician of Medi Face.
The evolution of psychiatry is often misunderstood as a discipline that merely "treats diseases." But its true purpose lies not in the accumulation of diagnostic techniques alone. What we must confront is not disease as a label, but the very being of a human — fragile at times, sublime at others.
As modern medicine has advanced — and AI technology is of course no exception — laboratory values and imaging diagnostics have achieved remarkable precision. Yet the complexity of the human soul and will, the "mind," still harbors depths that cannot be reduced to numbers. As a psychiatrist, I have continued to challenge this mystery.
Our mission is not merely to assign diagnostic names — to label illness — but to resonate with the individual journey of each person and open up their possibilities. Psychiatry should be a compass that liberates those bound by the chains of the past and clears the path forward.
The philosophy that Medi Face upholds is to fuse the wisdom of physicians with the power of technology — not merely to cure disease, but to help enrich the lives of each individual anew. Led by our AI Doctor, we advance with the resolve and conviction to diagnose the "human being itself" through the cutting edge of science.
