Labor Bureaus of Japanese government (MHLW) provide counseling service for employers and employees over labor regulations and work conditions at their offices. Such counseling is provided also over phone in Japanese and major languages during office hours of weekdays. So-called “hotline over work conditions” telephone service was available outside of the office hours, but only […]
Amendments in Health Insurance law have been enacted in the Diet session on May 15th, 2019. Among them, what impacts the most to world talents is addition of requirement to be a resident in Japan for a dependent to be insured. Such requirement has been already in place for some of health insurance unions as […]
Social security systems of Japan are complex and little explained in languages other than Japanese. Because of this, some world talents in Japan forget to pay social insurance premium and leave it in arrears. Such arrears have negative impact to visa application. Immigration Bureau reviews fulfillment of “tax obligation” as a reinforcing factor for acceptance […]
What puzzles many world talents, who start life in Japan, is difference in practices of apartment rent from the ones in their home countries. Many talents have questions around key money and security deposit. In fact, there are regional differences even domestically within Japan, e.g. in how many months of deposit is required and how […]