Public Health Experience in the ‘Snow Country’ Niigata, Japan

In the cold winter month of January 2012, two post graduate students from the Department of Community Health, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), went on a two weeks field attachment with the Division of International Health (Public Health), Niigata University Graduate School of Medical Dental Sciences (NU). This report is an account of our first hand learning experience about the public health system and culture in Niigata, Japan.