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batman1 · Joined: 02 Aug 2009 Posts: 19

Does anyone know what kind of medical exams are needed now to get a work visa in Japan? Do you have the medicals here or there or both? What do they check for?
Thanks for your help.

Hot-Carl · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 63

Bread · Joined: 24 May 2009 Posts: 318

Never got one for Humanities visa. Instructor visa didn't require one, but my company said that I needed one to be allowed to teach in public school. It was a regular checkup: weight, height, pee in a cup (he dipped a little strip in it, said it was checking for proteins or sugars or something - I don't think it was a drug test), chest x-ray, doctor consultation. I don't think they drew any blood. It was definitely less invasive than the Korean check.

Apsara · Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 2142 Location: Tokyo, Japan

Medical exams are not a requirement for any visa in Japan that I know of. Individual companies may require health checks, but Japan Immigration does not.

fluffyhamster · Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 7:47 pm Post subject:

The main thing that employers/schools seem concerned about is TB, hence the occassional need to get a chest x-ray (but only once in Japan - no checks are necessary for visa purposes/entry to the country). About the only situation where one's health is at all vetted is in the JET programme application, but even that IIRC was pretty much self-disclosure forms without any real need to see one's doctor (unless one had disclosed something at all serious which might prevent successful participation in the programme).