Everybody needs health insurance, especially when they live and work abroad. However, insurance systems in foreign countries are often difficult to understand without native language proficiency and difficult to explain to foreign employees whose reference points are often the completely different schemes they are used to in their home countries. (more…)

In October of 2007, the employment measure law was amended, requiring all corporations that hire foreign workers to report their employment situation to the local Hello Work office, including name, sex, birthday, visa status, duration of stay and employment-related information. If corporations fail to provide information or present a false report to authorities, they will be fined up to 300,000 yen and/or be liable to administrative sanctions.

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