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Chinese-Language Resources
Health information and administrative forms for Chinese-speaking residents and visitors in Japan. Archived from AMDA-IMIC's Chinese-language resource section.
在日本生活，医疗体系的种种规则往往让人感到陌生。挂号、转诊、处方取药、保险报销——每一步都有自己的流程，而且大多数文件只有日文版本。AMDA国际医疗情报中心（AMDA-IMIC）曾为在日中文使用者提供中文版的健康信息与行政表格，帮助大家在不依赖翻译的情况下，独立完成常见的医疗手续。
本页整理了AMDA-IMIC原有的中文资料，包括12种医疗和行政表格的中文版本、健康信息指南，以及各都道府县多语种支持的检索目录。紧急情况下请拨打119（救护车/消防），东京都内可拨#7119进行医疗电话咨询。就诊时须携带健康保险证（保险卡）。如需查询都道府县的中文对应窗口，请访问多语种医疗支持目录。
Chinese nationals constitute one of the largest foreign resident communities in Japan, concentrated particularly in Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, and Nagoya. AMDA-IMIC's Chinese-language section (formerly at chi.amda-imic.com) provided health information, administrative guidance, and consultation forms in Chinese to serve this community from 2013 to 2024.
Japan and China share some medical terminology due to Japan's historical use of Chinese characters (kanji), but the administrative systems and practical procedures differ significantly. Chinese residents encounter differences in how health insurance works, how prescriptions are issued and filled, and how hospital referrals function.
Start here
- How Japan's healthcare system works
- National health insurance (NHI) — enrolment and coverage
- Finding multilingual doctors and clinics
Community Health Context
The Chinese resident community in Japan includes a wide range of visa categories: long-term residents, students, technical trainees, and specialized skilled workers. Each visa category has different insurance requirements and different access to health services. AMDA-IMIC's guidance covered these distinctions, with specific attention to the situations most commonly encountered by Chinese nationals in Japan.
Chinese-language healthcare resources in Japan improved considerably during the period AMDA-IMIC operated. Some large hospitals in areas with significant Chinese populations employ Chinese-speaking staff or maintain interpreter services. Municipal health centres in high-density foreign resident areas often have Chinese-language materials available. The prefecture directory on this site identifies which prefectural consultation desks explicitly list Chinese-language support.
Japan's national health insurance (Kokumin Kenko Hoken, or NHI) requires enrolment for most foreign residents staying longer than three months. Enrolment is done at the local municipal office (shiyakusho or kuyakusho). The insurance card (hokensho) covers 70% of approved medical costs at clinics and hospitals. High-cost medical expense protection (Kogen Ryoyo-hi) provides an income-linked ceiling on monthly out-of-pocket spending, a protection that Chinese residents are entitled to on the same terms as Japanese nationals.
Occupational health requirements — including the mandatory annual stress check (sutoresu chekku) introduced in 2015 — apply to all employees regardless of nationality. Understanding these requirements and the forms associated with them is part of navigating employment in Japan as a Chinese national. AMDA-IMIC's Chinese-language materials covered these occupational health obligations alongside the standard medical forms.
Forms in Chinese
All 12 form types documented by AMDA-IMIC are available in Chinese (中文):
Medical glossary (中文) → Medical phrasebook →
Prefectural support desks listing Chinese
Prefecture health consultation desks that explicitly list Chinese-language support include Hokkaido, Aomori, Iwate, Akita, Yamagata, Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Yamanashi, Nagano, Gifu, Mie, Kyoto, Kumamoto, and Okinawa. See the full prefecture directory for contact details.