THE CLINIC 大阪 (THE CLINIC Osaka)
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 60.5/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #18 of 25 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Aesthetic-surgery clinic in Umeda, Osaka, part of a small multi-city chain. Three attending physicians are named on the clinic's own site with photographs and individual profile pages. The board certification the clinic publishes for the branch director is in urology, and the facility register names a second of the three as the designated manager. Two records carry the branch director's name in the national physician licence register, one of them registered in the year his published career gives for graduation.
Google Maps listing (reference, not scored)
What the clinic's public Google Maps listing showed when we read it: the rating other people gave, the number of their reviews and the hours the clinic itself publishes there. This block is a reference only — it does not enter the score, the rank, the ceilings or the holds, and we have not checked it beyond matching the listing to this record.
| Google rating | 4.5 out of 5 · reviews: 853 |
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| Opening hours as published on the listing |
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| Open the listing on Google Maps | Google Maps |
Source: Google Maps, read 2 October 2026. The listing was matched to this record by the clinic's website address.
Axis by axis
rubric value 1–5 · ? could not verify (no points, not a negative finding) · — not applicable: this country has no register of that class · OFF official register · SEC secondary source
| Axis | Finding (rubric anchor) | Value | Source class | Weight | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1 | Specialist certification of the responsible physician Only a secondary source (society, association, directory) supports the certification, while the official register of this class is open in the jurisdiction. The clinic publishes a urology board credential and device certifications for the branch director. He is not returned by the JSPRS 形成外科専門医 roster, the JSAPS member list or the JSAS 専門医検索; the ナビイ facility record for this address publishes no specialist-staff table. [jsas] [site-doctor] 日本泌尿器科学会専門医 |
SEC | 26 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by name (surname stem and given name or initial; a second identifier where the name is ambiguous). 厚生労働省 医師等資格確認検索: 氏名一致で2件該当（医師、男性、登録年 平成13年・平成20年）。登録番号は公表されない。クリニック公表の経歴は2001年（平成13年）東京大学医学部卒業で、うち1件の登録年と一致する。備考欄および詳細の「その他」欄に行政処分の記載なし。 [licenseif] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. Facility register record: name, address and status match the clinic’s own site. [navii] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Only a brand, without a legal form and without a responsible person. Whatever we find ourselves is shown on the profile as a fact and does not raise this cell. Exact legal-entity name match in the national corporate-number register; registered head-office address matches the clinic address. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the clinic publishes neither the number nor the legal entity (audit not_published, entity name not found on the clinic pages; the entity was found by us — shown as a fact)] [nta] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. One physician’s own profile names a specific board certification with its issuing society, but no licence or registration numbers are published for any physician or the facility. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty No pattern from the lexicon found. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 17 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-20 |
| M9 | Patient documents Two or three. Consent and risk information are referenced; no aftercare, revision-policy or complaint-route page was found in this crawl. [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-31 |
Score ceilings
No ceiling applies. We never apply one on 'not found' alone.
Holds
No hold on this profile.
Inclusion policy
Four mechanical conditions. The first three decide whether a clinic is listed at all; the fourth decides whether it can be scored.
| Identifiable: live public surface + working in-country contact | verified yes [site] |
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| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site] |
Who is responsible
Named physicians and the legal entity, as published and as matched in the registers. A missing number is a statement about disclosure, not about licensing.
| Physician | Role | Register ID |
|---|---|---|
| 安部 光洋 (Abe Mitsuhiro) [site] [site-doctor] | 院長 (branch director), named on the clinic's own site and on its group doctor page | not published |
| 木村 圭吾 (Kimura Keigo) [site] [navii] [site-doctor-kimura] | 診療医師 (attending physician at this branch; the facility register's designated manager 管理者). The clinic publishes his own credentials as 日本外科学会専門医 and 日本呼吸器学会専門医, and names him director of the group's Hiroshima clinic. | not published |
| 黒澤 学 (Kurosawa Manabu) [site] | Attending physician, named on the clinic’s own site | not published |
Legal entity: 医療法人社団THE CLINIC Institute (THE CLINIC Institute Medical Corporation) · 6120005021420 [nta] [navii]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
- Rhinoplasty: verified no
- Breast surgery: verified yes →
- Liposuction & body contouring: verified yes →
- Hair transplant: verified no
- Injectables: verified yes →
- Medical weight loss: verified no
- Foreign-patient register (厚生労働省「外国人患者を受け入れる医療機関の情報を取りまとめたリスト」 — MHLW national list of facilities accepting foreign patients): could not verify
Secondary findings (not scored)
What a professional society, an international directory, a hospital page or another jurisdiction’s register says, shown for information where the country’s own register is closed. These facts enter neither the score nor the coverage.
What we could not verify
- M8 · Cross-locale consistency — Single language front
These cells score nothing and are not negative findings. A cell on a register that is closed to machine queries is left out of the coverage calculation; the others count against it. Each one names why it is empty; an attempt that did not complete is re-run in the next collection pass. If you can point to a public source, send it.
Contact details
| Website | http://www.theclinic-osaka.com/ |
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| Phone | 06-6313-0015 |
| Address | Kofure Umeda 6F, 2-12-4 Sonezaki, Kita-ku, Osaka |
| City | Osaka |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | http://www.theclinic-osaka.com/ | clinic's own site | clinic identity, named physicians, credentials, menu | 30 August 2026 |
| navii | https://www.iryou.teikyouseido.mhlw.go.jp/znk-web/juminkanja/S2430/… | official register | GET facility detail — operator, named manager, licensed departments | 30 August 2026 |
| nta | https://www.houjin-bangou.nta.go.jp/kensaku-kekka.html | official register | POST corporate-number search, term THE CLINIC Institute — legal-entity match | 30 August 2026 |
| jsprs | https://mypage.sasj2.net/site/json/jsprs_specialist.json | official register | JSPRS 形成外科専門医 roster (3,458 rows, Last-Modified 2026-09-20), exact full-name filter | 20 September 2026 |
| jsaps | https://mypage.sasj2.net/site/jsaps/api/member | secondary | JSAPS member list (1,676 rows) with 専門医 flag and expiry, exact full-name filter | 20 September 2026 |
| jsas | https://jsas.or.jp/?s=%E5%AE%89%E9%83%A8%20%E5%85%89%E6%B4%8B&post_… | secondary | JSAS 専門医検索, exact full-name query | 20 September 2026 |
| site-doctor | https://www.theclinic.jp/doctor/abe/ | clinic's own site | branch director profile, credentials, career | 20 September 2026 |
| licenseif | https://licenseif.mhlw.go.jp/search_isei/jsp/search.do | official register | POST https://licenseif.mhlw.go.jp/search_isei/jsp/search.do shokushu=1 seibetu=1 name=安部 光洋 expireKey=<per-session> | 20 September 2026 |
| site-doctor-kimura | https://www.theclinic.jp/doctor/kimura/ | clinic's own site | attending physician profile, credentials | 20 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M5: 5 → 2 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § F rule 6 — the clinic publishes neither the number nor the legal entity (audit not_published, entity name not found on the clinic pages; the entity was found by us — shown as a fact)) |
| 20 September 2026 | summary: "Aesthetic-surgery clinic in Umeda, Osaka, part of a small multi-city chain. Three attending physicians are named on the clinic’s own site with photographs and individual profile pages; the facility register’s designated manager is one of the three and discloses a board certification in urology rather than a plastic-surgery specialty, and could not be disambiguated in the physician-licence register due to a common-name match." → "Aesthetic-surgery clinic in Umeda, Osaka, part of a small multi-city chain. Three attending physicians are named on the clinic's own site with photographs and individual profile pages. The board certification the clinic publishes for the branch director is in urology, and the facility register names a second of the three as the designated manager. Two records carry the branch director's name in the national physician licence register, one of them registered in the year his published career gives for graduation." (Restated against the register and roster results re-run today (v1.2 pass 1)) |
| 20 September 2026 | doctors: "Attending physician; also the facility register’s designated manager (管理者). The site lists his own credential as 日本泌尿器科学会専門医 (Japanese Urological Association board certification), a different specialty from plastic/aesthetic surgery." → "診療医師 (attending physician at this branch; the facility register's designated manager 管理者). The clinic publishes his own credentials as 日本外科学会専門医 and 日本呼吸器学会専門医, and names him director of the group's Hiroshima clinic." (Corrected against the clinic's own physician profile pages re-read today) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M3: null → 4 (Re-run against the MHLW 医師等資格確認検索 (v1.2 pass 1)) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M1: null → 2 (Re-run against the JSPRS and JSAPS rosters, the JSAS 専門医検索 and the ナビイ facility record (v1.2 pass 1)) |
| 31 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
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