Official Procedures you need to Follow Immediately After Coming to Japan

  • Register as foreign resident and always carry "alien registration card" with you.
  • You also need to subscribe to National Health Insurance.

 

Alien Registration Card

  • "Alien Registration Card" is your identification card.
  • You are required to always carry it with you.
  • Please go to the ward office (or city office) of the area you live in and register as foreign resident within 90 days after your arrival in Japan.
  • Passport and 2 photographs (4.5cm x 3.5cm) are required for foreign resident registration.
  • When your registration details change, such as expiration date, type of your visa and address, you will need to change the details within 14 days after the registration at the ward office (or city office).
  • In case that you omit the registration process, fines and penalties will be charged according to Japanese law.

 

National Health Insurance

All foreigners who plan to stay in Japan for more than one year must subscribe to the National Health Insurance. When you go to the hospitals because of sickness or injury, 70% of the fee will be paid by the insurance.

Students who subscribe to National Health Insurance are qualified to use ARC Academy's medical expense subsidy system.

  • You can go through the procedure at the ward office (or city office) where you registered as foreign resident. Your Alien Registration Card is required for this process.
  • "Exemption system", which helps reduce insurance fee, is applicable to persons, students and foreigners with no income. Please inquire at the ward office (or city office) of the area that you live in.

Examples

  General Rates In the case that the person has no income in the previous year both home and abroad
Tokyo's 23 Wards 35,100 Yen per annum 15,310 Yen per annum
Saitama City 29,500 Yen per annum 11,800 Yen per annum
Chiba Province 38,280 Yen per annum 15,310 Yen per annum
Kanagawa Province 34,000 Yen per annum Subject to further consultation
Aoba Ward, Yokohama City 34,220 Yen per annum 13,688 Yen per annum
  • If the compensation from part-time job is high, the health insurance fee will increase.
  • You can apply at ward office, city office, and district office.
  • If you move and change address, it is necessary to transfer your health insurance at the ward office.
  • The confirmed amount of annual health insurance fee will be notified in July (the annual amount notified in April is a tentative amount). In April, when the billing statement of April, May and June's amount arrive, please quickly pay for it at the bank.

 

Opening a Bank Account

Since it is difficult to open a bank account right after you arrive in Japan, ARC Academy will introduce banks which are close to our school.
After you enter the school, the orientation gives you more details about it.