Activity Reports

AMDA-IMIC published periodic activity reports summarizing the consultation services delivered, the languages used, the types of health questions most frequently raised, and the volume of requests handled by the multilingual team. These reports served as both accountability documents and practical reference records of how foreign residents used the center's services.

What the Reports Covered

Activity reports from AMDA-IMIC typically addressed several categories of information:

• Consultation volume: Total number of consultations handled in the reporting period, broken down by language. The breakdown showed which language communities made the most use of the service in a given year, reflecting both community size and the accessibility of other health information resources in each language.
• Subject categories: The types of health questions and administrative inquiries that consultations addressed. Common categories included insurance enrollment questions, hospital and clinic referral inquiries, form completion assistance, and questions about specific medications or treatments.
• Volunteer and staff activity: Reports documented the multilingual volunteer network that supported consultation services, including training activities and volunteer hours contributed.
• Forms library usage: Download and access statistics for the forms documented in the forms library, indicating which form types foreign residents most frequently needed.
• Outreach activities: Presentations, community events, and informational sessions held in collaboration with consulates, international schools, embassies, and municipal governments.

Reporting Period

Activity reports covered the period from 2013, when the center began operations, through the final years of active publication in 2023 and 2024. The reports provide a longitudinal view of how the demand for multilingual health information in Japan evolved over a decade.

Notable trends in the reports reflected broader demographic shifts: the Vietnamese-speaking consultation volume grew substantially from 2015 onward, corresponding with Japan's expansion of technical trainee and specified skilled worker programs that brought large numbers of Vietnamese nationals to Japan. Filipino and Thai language consultations remained consistently high throughout the reporting period.

Significance for Health Policy Research

The statistical records in AMDA-IMIC's activity reports offer a window into the practical health information needs of foreign residents in Japan — a topic that receives less systematic documentation than the clinical outcomes data compiled by Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Researchers studying health equity, multilingual health communication, or the integration of foreign nationals into Japanese society may find these reports a useful primary source.

The reports are preserved in this archive as reference documentation. For specific report files, consult the archived versions available through web archive services covering the original amda-imic.com domain.