If you’re a foreign nurse working in Japan — or getting ready to start — there’s a good chance nobody warned you about the hanko. You showed up prepared with
Starting a nursing job in Japan as a foreigner comes with a lot of paperwork — and somewhere in that stack, you will almost certainly be asked for a hanko
Finding a place to live is one of the first real tests of navigating Japan as a foreigner, and for nurses arriving with a new job offer, the pressure is
When you arrive in Japan as a foreign nurse, your first financial priority is usually the same: get a bank account open so your salary has somewhere to land. It
If you are a foreign nurse working in Japan—or preparing to—you have probably already noticed that paperwork here runs deep. Employment contracts, hospital onboarding forms, housing agreements, resident registration documents: