JISTEC Support Service

We provide professional services to mid-term and long-term residing foreign researchers and their families from the initial stages of their arrival in Tsukuba and surrounding areas.

【Main Contents】

・Accompanying and translating for our customers with procedures to be executed, such as alien registration, health insurance plan enrollment, resident searching and hospital visitation

・Daily life consultations by telephone

・Services are provided in Japanese, English and Chinese.

【Services available to】

Any foreign researcher working at a research institute in Tsukuba including their families.

Such seminars are provided to first-time hosts of foreign researchers. Our advisers will visit universities and research organizations to conduct seminars based on their many years of experience of providing support and facilitation services to foreign researchers.

【Main Topics Covered】

• ・Initial procedures for newly arrived foreign researchers, such as:
  

  Alien registration
  Opening a bank account
  Looking for an apartment

• ・What to do when foreign researchers or their families fall ill in Japan
• ・When confronted with a difficult situation such as having to:
  

  Report the loss of valuables and/or documents
  Call an ambulance
  Deal with a traffic accident

• ・Other topics as per customers' requests