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English counseling for disability pensions and worker’s accident compensation available

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Oshima Licensed Social Insurance Consultant Office on Wednesday began offering consultation services in English that include counseling and representation on application procedures for disability pensions and worker’s accident compensation insurance.

People who are looking for counseling in English usually have no place to go to for help. Even for non-native speakers who are proficient in Japanese at a daily conversation level, legal terms are confusing and hard to understand most of the time.

Aimed at helping these people, the new consultation services have the following characteristics.

  1. Consultation can be conducted in English.
  2. Relevant information, such as Japan’s pension-related laws and regulations as well as social security agreements, can be provided.
  3. Follow-up services, such as increasing pensions when their medical conditions deteriorate, can be provided.
  4. Representation is available for the paperwork involved in the worker’s compensation insurances in cases such as sexual harassments, power harassments and long working hours.
  5. Inadequate pension services can also be handled appropriately.

Persons, who are suffering from injuries or illnesses during work or from other causes, can be entitled to these services:

  1. Persons who developed mental disorders or other illnesses due to long working hours and other causes while under employment in a Japanese branch of a foreign-based company
  2. Persons who became the disabled while at work in a Japanese company
  3. Persons who became the disabled while married to a Japanese person
  4. Persons who suffered from depressions as a result of divorces from international marriages
  5. Persons who returned to their home countries without learning the disability pension system

Commenting on the opening of these new services, the representative consultant, Tatsunori Oshima, said, “According to a recent news report, the nursing and elderly care field is a very stressful working environment. In the course of my work, I have constantly encountered foreign workers in Japan, particularly those from Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam, in cases involving worker’s accidents and in the field of nursing and elderly care.”

“These foreign workers must be feeling a stress of working in Japan, an unfamiliar place for them. In addition, many of them are not well informed about Japan’s worker’s accident compensation insurances and the pension system. The worker’s insurances, in particular, provide generous compensations that will be necessary for medical treatments.” He adds.

The Oshima Consultation Office aims to undertake around five such cases each month in the near future. Counseling services in Chinese and Korean are also planned.

For more information, visit http://disability-pension.jp/en/

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This sounds like a valuable and much needed service, particularly for all the people who suffer workplace accidents while working in nursing care or other places where the chances of injury are high.

Dealing with a workplace issue at the moment, I really know how useful it would be to have someone help me draft everything in Japanese.

It should make clear though if this is basically an advert for a private service, or if this a low cost or free service. One of the biggest issues facing foreign workers who have this type of problem is whether the organisation is legit and really working in their interests.

Although it does sound above board, a proper article (rather than an ad) should be independent and make this absolutely clear.

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I refuse to pay a commission or whatever to a middleman in order to receive compensation from the state that I'm legally entitled. to. That's wrong.

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