外国人相談窓口に関する参考資料

We've been getting TYILASYI for JP MIRAI down here too.

Our 国際交流協会 has been working hard to try and spread word of it.

It kinda sounded like they're gonna be working with the local grocery chain San-A, like maybe basing their operations there?

For anyone who's office does multilingual information, the National Tax Agency has some guides about how to file your taxes (the 確定申告 stuff). Info is available in English, Chinese, Portuguese, and Vietnamese:

www.nta.go.jp/taxes/shiraberu/shinkoku/tebiki/2021/foreigner/index.htm

Oh dang, wish I'd seen this a couple weeks ago.

A couple people have come to SYIACKSHOW recently who may have benefitted.

I'll keep it in mind

The Japanese government has a website for people aged 18 and under who are suffering from loneliness and isolation. They recently made it multi-lingual, although it does seem to be either MT or gyosha translation

in any case, it's available in English, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Filipino, Thai, Vietnamese, Nepalese, and Indonesian, for anyone whose madoguchi might find it useful:

www.notalone-cas.go.jp/support/

Half a vent, half seeing if anyone else has better resources to share (TW that it's about Domestic Violence):




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We've gotten a fair number of (English) speakers coming into the Domestic Violence office for consultations, only for the DV office to determine that their cases don't fit the definition of 'DV'. 2 came up this past week; now the DV office wants me to slightly adjust the wording on the English page we have for them to try and direct people to call International Relations first before contacting the DV office directly

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the problem is:

1) in English speaking countries, the definiton of domestic violence primarily focuses on partner violence, but can branch out to include violence going on between other family members in the home (like grandparents, etc.)

2) in Japan, the definition seems to focus only on intimate partners (but doesn't have to be married partners), and that violence between other family members is either child abuse (if involving kids) or 家庭内暴力

3) yet when I google 「家庭内暴力　どこに相談」 literaly only resources for DV come up

Sooo, am I supposed to infer that Japan literally doesn't offer support for suffering families if it doesn't involve a boyhulemdo/girlhulemdo/ex/whatever? And if the DV office is going to turn away cases of violence between other kinds of family members, where else can we recommend for them to go? I'm kinda annoyed that the DV office seems annoyed that people keep coming in for 'non DV cases' but like, cultural differences aside, even if you try to search in Japanese you're led to believe you can talk to the DV office so...

rebv thanks for responding! In Tall Cape, if it involves children it gets labeled as child abuse (子供虐待) and taken care of at another division here too. I'm glad to hear you guys were able to get them out of the situation and to somewhere safe!

I guess I mean: recently a woman moved her and her small child into an elderly Japanese couple's home and had a pretty sus agreement going on; after the elderly man started yelling and SMACKDOWNing with the mom (both in front of the daughter and when she wasn't around) things escalated and he kicked her out of his home. She felt that was DV since they had been living together and she "considered them like parents to me" / had even tried getting them to do some legal adoption stuff with her daughter.

But her case didn't count as DV because there was no partner violence happening

the other was a guy who can't speak Japanese, calling to report that his in-law, who lives with him and his Japanese wife, had advanced dementia and was getting violet at home, but that was pushed off to the division that handles advanced elderly care, and not counted as DV either