The Chile Rearing Allowance is for parent/guardian of a child who cannot live either with his/her father or mother. It i...

“Chokotto Hoiku” is a service in which people who have children can leave their children at daycare for one hour or more...

The “Pensioner Support Benefit” is a newly introduced program effective Oct. 1, 2019 when the consumption tax is increas...

Staff providing treatment at osteopathic and orthopedic clinics (known as “judo therapists”) and staff providing acupunc...

New National Health Insurance (NHI) certificates (Hokensho) will be issued effective November 1. The new certificate is ...

Many elderly people lose their lives from pneumonia. A major cause of pneumonia is pneumococcus. There is a pneumococcus...

Influenza Vaccination has begun. Discount coupons for Influenza vaccinations were sent at the end of September to famili...

Recently in Japan earthquakes and natural disasters, such as typhoons, heavy rain, flooding and windstorms, have occurre...

The amounts you have to pay for the National Health Insurance and Nursing Care Insurance this year have been determined ...