Welcome to the website of T-M Rouyaku(good medicine) Center.
We provide information on various aid activities in Southeast Asian countries.
We have local offices in Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos, and we keep in touch with them. Whenever we receive a request for assistance from the villagers, we recruit people to help us in Japan to meet their needs.

TMRC was originally a network of Buddhist ministers, who have been actively executing the practice of Vihara at local shelters of Hansen disease patients. The practice of Vihara is providing service of mental relaxation and comfort based on the Buddhist philosophy. In order to cater their Vihara service to the continent, TMRC was established as a non-profit organization with the participations of doctors, professors, principles, students, and etc. in 2003. Since then, TMRC's activities has expanded from mental relaxation service to the improvement of the community through constructing health clinics, schools, and water wells in other Asian countries, such as Nepal, Sri Lanka, Laos, Myammar, Cambodia, and Bangladesh.
TMRC was originally a network of Buddhist ministers, who have been actively executing the practice of Vihara at local shelters of Hansen disease patients. The practice of Vihara is providing service of mental relaxation and comfort based on the Buddhist philosophy. In order to cater their Vihara service to the continent, TMRC was established as a non-profit organization with the participations of doctors, professors, principles, students, and etc. in 2003. Since then, TMRC's activities has expanded from mental relaxation service to the improvement of the community through constructing health clinics, schools, and water wells in other Asian countries, such as Nepal, Sri Lanka, Laos, Myammar, Cambodia, and Bangladesh.

TMRC the non-profit organization Japan
Office 1024 Soudja, Souja-machi, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan 371-0852

Profile
The mission of TM Rouyaku Center is to develop solidarity projects with people who are marginalized due to their social disadvantage, illness, disability and poverty, in order to promote the protection of human rights and to secure the social welfare at international level.
To achieve the above-mentioned mission, TM Rouyaku Center engages in the following fields of non-profit activities
(1) To promote health, medical and welfare care
(2) To protect human rights and promote peace
(3) To pursue international solidarity
(4) To cooperate with other organizations who engage in the activities listed above

To achieve the above-mentioned mission, TM Rouyaku Center focuses on the following non-profit projects
(1) Of establishing medical clinics overseas and to support local medical and welfare services
(2) Of international solidarity to raise awareness of peace building and human rights protection
(3) Of publishing books and articles related to the preceding projects

Organization
Title Name Affiliation
Chancellor of the Board Kyoryo Tashiro Abbot of Myokoji Temple, President of Numata Kindergarten
Director Shido Ogawa, Abbot of Myokenji Temple
Director Zonryo Ide, Abbot of Jissoji Temple
Director Yoshio Nishita President of Total Original Produce Co.
Director Yasuo Gondo Abbot of Shakahonji Temple
Supervisors Sensho Murano Abbot of Jakkoin Temple, Head of Tachibana Nursery School

Establishment of TM Rouyaku Center
A group of volunteers, who had been practicing Vihara activities, began to think how they could apply their extensive experiences of aiding leprosy patients, to help people suffering from illness, disability and poverty.
In 2000, these volunteers, including medical doctors, nurses, university professors, kindergarten directors, and students, joined to establish a non-profit organization that supports the marginalized population in the world. This was the birth of the TM Rouyaku Center. Today, our local offices in six different countries in Asia are engaging in various projects.

Vihara: Buddhist hospice activities

Membership
T-M Rouyaku Center welcome you to join us.
Come join us in our international solidarity projects. There are many villages in the countries in Southeast Asia in which the infrastructure for the running water is not implemented. Every year, many people die from intestine infection caused by drinking water of the pond during the dry season. We are here to build solidarity with those in need and to accompany you to make your vision of helping others come true. We hope you will join us.

Membership Fee
We are looking for people who share the passion to help others. Why don't you join our solidarity project in Asia with us?
(1) Enrollment fee:
Individual Full member - 10,000 yen Group Full member - 30,000 yen
　　　 Individual Activity member - 0 Group Activity member - 30,000 yen
　　　 Individual Supporting member - 0 Group Supporting Member - 0

(2) Annual membership fee:
Individual Full member - 10,000 yen Group Full member - 30,000 yen
　　　Individual Activity member – 5,000 yen Group Activity member - 30,000 yen
　　　Individual Supporting member – 5,000 yen Group Supporting Member – 5,000 yen

Transfer destination
　The account name: "NPO T.M. Rouyaku Center”
　Bank routing Number: "The Gunma Bank Head Office, Savings Account 2134150".
　Post Office: “00160-5-591781”

　　We are looking forward to working with you.

TMRC collaborates with the people of the same persuasion on Buddhahood with the full intention of hearing the voices of the locals through having the first hand experiences together. TMRC has been introducing the voices of those locals and the changes that they would like to see in their livelihood, to its community back in Japan. TMRC has developed community services at various nations in Asia such as constructing the sites and the school buildings where the public education had not been provided to the local children along with sending the used bicycles for the children for their long commutes to the school. TMRC has coordinated the donations of the water wells In the response of the written petition from the villages, describing the excessive uses of the rain water causing the eye damage and increasing the eye disease in the villages. TMRC is always in search for the people who is interested in such community oriented service projects in Asia. All the reports since the establishment of 2003 are available to look at.

Would you like to support well projects in Southeast Asia?
There are many villages in the countries in Southeast Asia in which the infrastructure for the running water is not implemented. Every year, many people die from intestine infection caused by drinking water of the pond during the dry season. We are looking for people to donate wells for those villages. We build a manual pump well of 20 meters in depth underground. The cost is 60,000 yen per well. Each well provides for 5-6 families (about 30 people) nearby with water for their daily use. The wells are often used for the irrigation for their vegetables garden and livestock to support the standard of living. We are looking forward to hearing from you via our contact page.
PCR testing for a Covid-19 in Bangladesh
The number of COVID-19 infection is increasing rapidly in Bangladesh. About 3000 to 4000 people are diagnosed positive every day. Situation is devastating and continuously deteriorating due to inability of the country to cope with the demand of COVID-19 tests. Approximately, 50,000 samples need to be tested daily to control the new coronavirus infection effectively in Bangladesh. However, governments and private hospitals can only test thousands in a day. There is no reliable test around the world for diagnosing new coronavirus infections other than PCR testing. But PCR requires expensive machinery, highly skilled laboratory technicians, and doctors. In addition, testing 96 samples takes about 5-6 hours. Japan recently developed a reliable technology that can test 96 samples within an hour. Japan developed a one-step RT- PCR test protocol, called RT-LAMP, to diagnose COVID-19 within an hour. This method was strictly monitored in comparison to conventional PCR protocol for diagnosing COVID-19 cases for validation, under the direct supervision of Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. The modified one-step PCR tests showed high specificity to SARS-CoV-2, which is comparable to gold standard PCR tests. Japan government approved LAMP protocol for clinical diagnosis of COVID-19. Beside much less time requirement, this method also don’t require high skill technician, as the reagents are mostly in a state of ‘ready-to-use’. Moreover, in this method gene amplification can be done with more simplified and portable equipment. This technology is suitable for populous low-income countries such as Bangladesh. I am familiar with this test method and would like to help the people of Bangladesh with this technique.
(K M Anwarul Haque, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases Department International University of Health and Welfare, School of Medicine)
Building a school in Myanmar
Myanmar consists of numerous small ethnic groups and there have been conflicts among them. The civil war has been preventing the government support from reaching the Yebu Village, Dawei province of the southern coast of Myanmar, (600km South of Yangon), and the children are deprived of educational opportunities. Establishing a school has been a long-awaited wish of the villagers. The construction of a single-story school building of brick with 5 classrooms would cost approximately 1.5 million yen.

June 11, 2020
The website was renewed.
April 28, 2005.
The website was created