[WELFARE] Medical Subsidy for Infants and Children for Everyone from August 2023
International Mothers Community in Yokohama
by IMCY Admin
10M ago
The city of Yokohama is going to offer medical subsidy for all the infants and children under high school age (0 to 9th graders) from August 2023. Basically medical expense for children of those ages will be free.   *Now (until the end of July, 2023), if the income of the caregiver of a child (over 3 years old) surpasses the income limit of the subsidy system, they lose the certificate.  For those who don't have or have lost the right to use the medical subsidy certificate for children of the city of Yokohama need to reapply to receive the new certificate.  Those who are subject ..read more
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[WELFARE] Child Allowance Present Condition Form 2020
International Mothers Community in Yokohama
by IMCY Admin
1y ago
You may have already received a yellow envelop from the city; it's the season of the Jido Teate, Genkyo Todoke (児童手当・特例給付現況届) , Child Allowance Present Condition form to continue to receive the allowance for another year.   Haven't received it yet? If you have children under 15 and have not received the envelop, you might need to check if your registration was properly done when you moved in to Yokohama.  In the envelop, you find: 1) A white one-sided sheet (how to fill in the form) 2) A white sheet with your name and address on (the child allowance present condition f ..read more
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[ACTIVITY REPORT] Let's Make Festival Masks with Kyoiku-kai
International Mothers Community in Yokohama
by IMCY Admin
1y ago
On the day before Setsubun, we got together to make Oni masks and Carnival masks. First we watched videos on Setsubun and Carnival (in English) and then started to paint and decorate the masks!  Each child got two white masks: a round one and a cat one. With paints, pens, stickers and masking tapes, children decorated their masks. Then they ate roasted soy beans, as many as their age according to the tradition, and went out for bean throwing. Daddies put on the oni mask their kids made and played the role of Oni demon. Children threw the beans to drive away bad luck that Oni represen ..read more
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[WELFARE] Changes in Child Allowance System
International Mothers Community in Yokohama
by IMCY Admin
1y ago
  There will be some changes in the laws concerning Child Allowance on June 1st, 2022. Those who have children under 15 years old must have received this yellow envelop.  From this year, 1) Basically you will not have to turn in the present condition form for Child Allowance. 2) If your income exceeds the limit, you will not receive the special allowance.  1) About the present condition form(現況届) If you receive the form AFTER JUNE 1st, it is NECESSARY TO TURN IN THE FORM. a) Those who are under divorce process and live separately with their spouse b) This whose actual address ..read more
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[WELFARE] Child Allowance Present Condition Form 2021
International Mothers Community in Yokohama
by IMCY Admin
1y ago
 If you have children under 15 and receive Child Allowance, you are supposed to turn in Jido Teate, Genkyo Todoke (児童手当・特例給付現況届) , Child Allowance Present Condition form by the end of June in order to continue to receive the allowance for another year.   Haven't received it yet? If you have children under 15 and have not received the envelop, you might need to check if your registration was properly done when you moved in to Yokohama.  In the envelop, you find: 1) A white one-sided sheet (how to fill in the form) 2) A white sheet with your name and address on (the ..read more
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[INFO] Garbage and Recyclables Collections during New Year Holidays
International Mothers Community in Yokohama
by IMCY Admin
1y ago
There is no garbage collection during the New Year holidays as follows: Click to download the PDF files in each language English Spanish Portuguese  Chinese Korean (This information is provided through YOKE ..read more
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[EVENT] Christmas in Yokohama 2020
International Mothers Community in Yokohama
by IMCY Admin
1y ago
  Red Brick Warehouse Christmas Market 2020 December 4th to December 25th 11:00-21:00 (Last entry by 20:30) Their official page has opened: https://www.yokohama-akarenga.jp/christmas/ This year, they need to limit the number of visitors so you will need a reservation ticket to enter. Weekdays: Admission free / Re-entry accepted / for 60 minutes each time Weekends and Dec.23rd to 25th: 300 yen (free for elementary school children and younger but need to be accompanied by adult(s)) , for 60 minutes each time and no re-entry  Even though you get the ticket you may need to w ..read more
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[PLAYGROUP] Hodogaya International Lounge Foreign Mothers' Gathering "Piccolo" restarts.
International Mothers Community in Yokohama
by IMCY Admin
1y ago
  Hodogaya International Lounge's foreign mothers' gathering "Piccolo" has been closed since March but finally it will reopen in September 2020. But there are some changes: -The gathering is reduced to once a month. -You need to sign up each time. -The number of families is limited to 10 (basically a child and the caretaker in each "family") and up to 5 local Japanese families among them.  <HOW TO SIGN UP> Call or email to Hodogaya International Lounge and give them your name, your child's name and your phone number. It's first-come-first-served basis and the sign-up must be m ..read more
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[HEALTH] Visual and Audio Checkup for 3 Years Olds
International Mothers Community in Yokohama
by IMCY Admin
1y ago
Some of you might have received this letter from the city of Yokohama. This is an announcement for the visual and audio checkup for three-year-old children (turning four this before next April). It says from this fiscal year (or school year/ from April to March in Japan),  they pulled down the target age from four to three, so if you have a four-year-old(s) and a three-year-old(s), you receive the letter for both (or all) of them this year.  If your child(ren) is already enrolled in a school (nursery or kindergarten), you will receive the checkup questionnaire sheet through your s ..read more
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[INFO] About COVID-19
International Mothers Community in Yokohama
by Unknown
1y ago
There is some information provided by YOKE about COVID-19 in Japan. Multilingual information by CLAIR http://www.clair.or.jp/j/multiculture/tool_library/tools/114526.html?fbclid=IwAR2_sMGjg7vd14mQF-ZeaZTNkqfaXEOQBkORz2TKmSqhTT_7JB-FM1ymdhE Click the orange button to download the files (a folder that contains all the files in Korean, English, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Burmese, Portuguese, Vietnamese, French, Tagalog, Nepali, German, Thai, Spanish, Indonesian, Easy Japanese will be downloaded) Japan Visitor Hotline http://www.mlit.go.jp/kankocho/news08_000311.html (press release in Japanese ..read more
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