Hotline service to begin for foreigners in Japan for virus inquiries

Good for them to do this.

The advice will be ‘stay at home’

Good - thank you for sharing this information.

However, only Tokyo and major prefectures such as Osaka, Aichi and Fukuoka have multi-language services available.

Other prefectures have multi-language services too, e.g. Tottori: http://www.town.yazu.tottori.jp/secure/7196/5-0_PDF.pdf

English, Chinese, Korean Hotline since the end of January.

Content-free article...

Notice what's actually missing? The actual phone number.

will believe it when I see it the last time MOJ and NPA offered hotlines for foreigners needing assistance I made test calls to each in Japanese not one official knew about the hotlines. same as when I called asked MOE about distance learning they said only a few high schools do it, they do it independently, MOE doesn't have database or list which HS they are - complete morons.

The writers of this article should be ashamed!

Far too often articles like this are posted here but they are missing the MOST important information that could possibly save a person's life here.....

The telephone number!

Hotlines in various prefectures

Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Medical Information Center Himawari (03-5285-8181). Languages: English, Chinese, Korean, Spanish and Thai.

Saitama Prefecture (048-833-3296). Languages: English, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Tagalog, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian and Nepalese.

Osaka Prefecture (06-6941-2297). Languages: iEnglish, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Thai, Indonesian and Nepalese.

Kyoto Prefecture (075-343-9666). Languages: English, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Portuguese and Spanish.

Hyogo Prefecture (078-382-2052). Languages: English, Chinese, Spanish and Portuguese.

Gunma Prefecture (027-289-8275). Languages: English, Vietnamese, Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish.

Yamaguchi Prefecture (092-687-6639). Languages: English, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Nepali, Tagalog, Indonesian, Portuguese, German, Russian, French, Spanish, Italian, Malay, Burmese and Khmer.

Hiroshima Prefecture (0120-783-806). Languages: English, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Tagalog, Portuguese, Indonesian, Thai, Spanish and Nepalese.

Shiga Prefecture (077-523-5646). Languages: English, Chinese, Portuguese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Nepalese, Korean, Spanish, Russian and Hindi.

Wakayama Prefecture (073-435-5240). Languages: English, Chinese and Tagalog.

Mie Prefecture (080-3300-8077). Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish, Tagalog, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Nepalese, Indonesian and Thai.

Gifu Prefecture (058-263-8066). Languages: English, Chinese, Portuguese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Nepalese, Korean, Spanish, Khmer, Myanmar, Malay and Mongolian.

Kumamoto Prefecture (080-4275-4489). Languages: English, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Nepalese, Indonesian, Tagalog, Thai, Portuguese, Spanish, Malay, French, Russian, German, Italian, Burmese, Khmer and Mongolian.

Fukuoka Prefecture (092-286-9595). Languages: English, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Nepali, Tagalog, Indonesian, Portuguese, German, Russian, French, Spanish, Italian, Malay, Burmese and Khmer.

Okinawa Prefecture (0570-050-235). Languages: English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese and Thai.

Hokkaido Prefecture (011-200-9595). Languages: English, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Thai, Russian, Nepalese, Indonesian and Burmese.

The phone number is right there in the link.

Guess the rest of the prefectures don't have foreigners else they would be listed. Aomori, Iwate, Akita all missing it just skips over to Hokaiddo, yet I see many foreigners in Sendai, Akita City, Aomori City, Morioka. I have met French, Chinese, Koreans, US Americans, Spanish, Russians, Vietnamese but no language help for them.

macv Thank you! Most of the foreigners living in Japan better stay than going to homeland where it's much more affected.

The phone number is right there in the link.

My self and others dont hover over every letter in an article, we READ them. If a link is going to be posted, it SHOULD be noted as such!

@expat

Where can I buy a mask?

The answer is you cannot.

Staff at convenience stores always have masks but none for sale in the shop so I would ask them for a couple.

I ordered masks from China. Faster than trying to call a hotline and getting the typical too many sentences in response to a simple question but never getting an answer.

Does Nagano not have a helpline for foreigners? Karuizawa has many, many foreigners.