抄録
Japan is an oceanic and archipelagic state and all big cities are located near the sea shore line. So importance of hospital ship and disaster relief ship had been pointed in Japan. After the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011, usefulness and needs for hospital ship were strongly proposed again. There exist many application fields of computer aided surgery for medical and humanitarian support activities in the hospital ship. Outlines and problems of hospital ship are presented in this paper.