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Emergency Medical Team 24 Returns for Its Sixth Series
The Japanese medical drama Emergency Medical Team 24 began its sixth series on October 12.
It follows doctors and nurses working in emergency care, and first began in 1999.
Yosuke Eguchi and Nanako Matsushima return as doctors Issei Shindo and Kaede Kojima, reuniting on screen after 16 years.
Kojima is back at Tokyo Metropolitan Third Hospital as deputy head of its emergency center, where she aims to train young doctors and build a team.
An explosion sends her and the team to treat injured people, and Shindo arrives to perform emergency chest surgery on a critically injured patient.
The episode also brings back characters from earlier series, now in senior hospital roles.
The story sets up tensions between experienced staff and younger colleagues over work practices and how to care for patients; no further plot details are given.
Emergency Medical Team 24 returned with its sixth series, which premiered on October 12.
The medical drama stars Yosuke Eguchi as emergency doctor Issei Shindo and Nanako Matsushima as doctor Kaede Kojima.
The new series is the first since the fifth series aired in 2013, a gap of 13 years.
Kojima returns to Tokyo Metropolitan Third Hospital’s emergency center as deputy director and works to build a team.
During a response to an explosion, Shindo arrives and performs an open-chest procedure on a critically injured patient.
- Who
- The series stars Yosuke Eguchi and Nanako Matsushima as doctors Issei Shindo and Kaede Kojima.
- What
- Emergency Medical Team 24 returned for its sixth series.
- When
- It premiered on October 12, 2026.
- Where
- The drama is set at Tokyo Metropolitan Third Hospital’s emergency center and an explosion scene.
- Why
- Not stated
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Emergency Medical Team 24 began.
The fifth series aired.
The sixth series premiered, 13 years after the fifth.
- Series
- Sixth
- Premiere
- October 12, 2026
- Previous series
- Fifth series aired in 2013
- Lead actors
- Yosuke Eguchi and Nanako Matsushima
- Hospital
- Tokyo Metropolitan Third Hospital
Sources
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