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LIFELINES

COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Jan 6, 2003
Navigating Japan health insurance
Deciding which I have lived in Japan and worked for the same company for six years. During this time the company has provided health insurance and paid all of the premiums. However, I will soon leave the company and thus lose my coverage.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Dec 31, 2002
Don't pay extra for shipping when you move to Japan
Belated greetings
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Dec 24, 2002
Clothing homeless volunteering and kids' art classes
Donating old clothes Being the season of good cheer and giving rather than receiving, here are some ways to help those less fortunate than ourselves.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Dec 17, 2002
Getting cash reimbursed for medical costs
We lost one of the anchors of the international community with the sudden and unexpected death of Corky Alexander, longtime Tokyo resident, editor of The Tokyo Weekender and a dear friend.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Dec 10, 2002
Last-minute mailing over Christmas
Greetings Oh Lord, it's nearly Christmas again, and those of us (and I include myself here) who still have packets and cards to be mailed abroad need to get our skates on.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Dec 3, 2002
Can tourists get themselves working visas?
There is a Japanese saying that goes "when you stand in front of the lighthouse you often miss the light."
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Nov 22, 2002
Finding a place and food for Thanksgiving
Finding a place Andrew in Kanagawa-ken wants to know how to help his daughter's French boyfriend get accommodation.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Nov 15, 2002
Visa rules and looking for a dream job
More health concerns Dear Lifelines; As I understand it, anyone one with a visa for a year or more can enter National Health Insurance. But is the sheme compulsory? And once entered, are you able to leave it if you can find private health cover with an overseas firm? -- Reader in Kansai
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Nov 8, 2002
Culture shock, elusive stats, hairy insurance
Culture shock Phew. Here I am by the skin of my teeth, just back from Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Victoria, where touching base with non-Japanese friends met here was sobering to say the least.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Nov 1, 2002
A good result with Japan's health insurance system
Traveling a lot you begin to be truly thankful for what we take for granted in Japan.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Oct 25, 2002
For the right and the wrong kind of break in Japan
Tourist redress Sheila from London, wants to sound off about a ryokan (traditional inn) she stayed at in Kyoto in early October.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Oct 18, 2002
Insuring your health; ensuring your privacy
Health concerns Health continues to be a regular source of your questions. The issue was really brought home to me the other day when, following a 10-hour flight, with no sleep, I got up to give a speech and couldn't speak nor remember what I was supposed to stay.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Oct 11, 2002
What's a working mom to do with her kids in Tokyo?
Childcare An entrepreneur in central Tokyo, is up in arms. One of her Japanese assistants is about to have a baby and wants to continue working afterwards. But so far her assistant has been unable to find public child-care facilities for children under the age of 2.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Oct 4, 2002
Finding out more about the law and you in Japan
You and the law To help you with any questions relating to you and law in Japan, The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, as part of The Living In Japan Series, will present: Japanese Laws You and Your Family Should Know on Oct. 16, at 12 p.m. at The Tokyo American Club.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Sep 26, 2002
Oral hygiene, oral history and aural pollution
Flouride in Japan The queries we get! About looking after our teeth, for example. Nancy Ridenour, who lives in Gifu, recalls being told a decade ago by a Colgate rep that fluoride is not introduced into Japanese toothpaste, nor is it legal in water here. As a result, she's been bringing in supplies of fluoride toothpaste from the States all these years.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Sep 19, 2002
Check-up costs, parking perils, and 'quake advice
Health check-ups I'm not feeling well and feel I need to get a complete checkup or physical. It is my understanding that the national health insurance only covers diagnosed illness but not such preventive care. What can I do? -- Phillip in Tokyo
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Sep 12, 2002
Words on Apple, more on pets and culture vultures
Last Apple bite As promised last time, Apple-man Anthony Walter of Caliburn responds to queries about Macintosh computers in Japan.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Sep 5, 2002
Divorce issues, cheap traveling and getting ADSL
Divorce issues Dear Lifelines, My wife and I have been separated for three years. I do not see any hope for our marriage and feel we need to get a divorce. I have two children. What should I do? -- Tony in Chiba
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Aug 29, 2002
Clearing the air, resurrecting cash and finding a pet
Clearing the air With summer winding down, and in readiness for new seasonal beginnings, time to clean the slate.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Aug 22, 2002
Seeking medical redress and keeping control of Spam
What a day we live in! I am writing this week's column from Los Angeles, where The Japan Helpline began in 1975 and where we have our U.S. offices. As usual, we had an emergency here!
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Air China to buy 100 locally made C919 jets in $11 billion deal
A Comac C919 during an aerial display at the Singapore Airshow at Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore in February
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Tokyo's Koto Ward by-election a race unlike any other
Natsumi Sakai, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan’s candidate and one of four female candidates running in the by-election, touts her experience as a cancer survivor and midwife as having prepared her to tackle issues that women currently face.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Top U.S. and China diplomats talk tough amid warnings of new ‘downward spiral’
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Friday
Kyotographie's strong 12th edition shines light into the margins
Yassine Alaoui Ismaili, who goes by Yoriyas, turned to photography, shooting motion while in motion himself, after an injury forced him to give up his career as a professional breakdancer.

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