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 […]
Management type visa sets its criteria too stringent for a world talent to start up new business in Japan. This is because the type is rather for an already established business manager to enter into Japanese market. To address this, a new type has been introduced in Dec 2018 as one of Designated Activity visa […]
The social security agreement has been signed off on April 11, 2019. It will be effective after approval by the Japan Diet. Under this agreement business persons between the two countries staying at the other country for less than five years will not have to join public pension scheme (nor pay premium) in both countries. […]