Guide to All Things Japanese
Monday February 6th 2012

Posts Tagged ‘health’

Japanese デリヘル Delivery Health

Japanese デリヘル Delivery Health

Ever taken enough time in lawson 7/11 or FamilyMart to actually check out the magazines they're selling?  If you're like me you probably haven't.  But just the other day out of complete boredom I did just that.  Ok, so the vast majority of the magazines are women's beauty and glamour mags and most of the rest are men's gravure or porno [...]

My Neighbor Totoro Has Swine Influenza

My Neighbor Totoro Has Swine Influenza

Once again the entire country of Japan has decided to freak-out about the Swine Influenza and all of the Japanese housewives and mothers have frantically busted open their piggybanks and purchased hundreds of thousands of flu masks in a matter of just a few days. One day everyone will be walking around like normal and then the very next day [...]

Natl. Health Insurance now Mandatory – Tied to Visa Renewal

This information has been public for over a month now but I thought I would condense it all here and make it easy for people to follow.  Basically in mid-June Japan's legislature passed a new law making it mandatory for all "foreigners" living in Japan to have the National Health Insurance.    Come April 2010, if you aren't part of the [...]