I don't want to live in Japan. - Page 6

Nyororin · (#51 (**permalink**))

Regarding medical care;
I have seen some really awful horror stories, both on here and elsewhere, but I have had nothing but good experiences myself. I finally had a medical condition properly diagnosed and treated once I was in Japan. In the US, doctors had just basically never even put forth the effort to even try and properly figure out the problem. In Japan, on an unrelated trip to the doctor, I mentioned it offhand - was properly diagnosed, received the proper medication, and like magic the problem was under control.

I wrote up a lot about the Japanese health system and personal experiences in here; http://www.japanforum.com/forum/livi...h-service.html

I also touched on it in this past thread; http://www.japanforum.com/forum/livi...m-boned-3.html

I`ve dealt with the serious end of the scale, and I feel that not only is Japanese care great, but it would be very VERY hard to convince me to risk the care elsewhere - including the US.

LorenPaul · (#52 (**permalink**))

ぼくはとうにょうびょうです。
(sorry it is written in nihongo, i didn't want the average anime hooligan shouting or taking the mickey)

i was diagnosed a year ago. so it's a bit of an open wound!

. but i'm getting used to it.

does anyone have any idea how i'd go about getting my インスリン if i were to be in japan?

When i spent a month in japan i just took a months worth of english medication and kept it in my friends fridge.

I'm going back to japan this summer for about 4 months living in an apartment with a few penfriends of mine.. so i hope to get a good slice of life (also saying that to keep this thread relevant)

but i was wondering how the japanese manage to get their インスリン and how it's covered.

it's a rare topic and i can't seem to find the answer anywhere on the net.

so any first hand knowledge would be fantastic and massively appreciated!

thanks in advance. and sorry for the medical question!

|L.p.

boinky78 · (#53 (**permalink**))

I understand what you mean I feel
I want to visit japan but living there I don't think that is for me

Burukuu · (#54 (**permalink**))

I agree. Some members are very ignorant though and shouldn't be taken seriously at all. I would love to visit Japan, but I could never stay longer than a month.

MMM · (#55 (**permalink**))

Quote:

Originally Posted by YoshimiTheEthereal

But Japan has such good technology and is so advanced! Why is their health care this way? I was hoping they would have a better solution for my carpal tunnel syndrome than the US . . .

Why is their health care what way?

It's 2009. Technology spreads as fast as a virus. Faster.

Kanji_The_Wanderer · (#56 (**permalink**))

Too many youngsters want to live in Japan, I have to say that I wanted to as well when I was a kid, but when you grow up, you connect to reality and see that no place on earth is a fantasy getaway.

Hopefully reading this thread will make so many realize.

I would very much enjoy to travel there several times, and stay for a while as a tourist, but I wouldn't want to make permanent residence.

spicytuna · (#57 (**permalink**))

Quote:

Originally Posted by LorenPaul

does anyone have any idea how i'd go about getting my インスリン if i were to be in japan?

Hi there,

I just did a google search and found a site which may be useful :
How to safely getting insulin in Japan

LorenPaul · (#58 (**permalink**))

thanks for the link! should be pretty useful!

wow it's a pretty new site! i must have missed it in the past! thanks alot!

|L.p.

nigiyaka · (#59 (**permalink**))

Wow, this is a nice board filled with a better perspective than many other people have given to me in the past. I can't count the countless of times people, who had never been to Japan, was telling me everything was better there only because anime/magna says so. Of course, I've been around some delusional people, apparently.

Anyway, I'm a Japanese and Asian Studies double major and hoping to get a job in politics more importantly working for the American embassy in Japan. How likely that will happen, I'm not very keen on that being an attainable goal, but it's still nice.

I was wondering if people who work within the American government places in Japan, if they have much contact outside of the assign areas? Hopefully I worded that right.

But, regardless, it's nice hearing more reasonable opinions from those who have actually been to, and lived, in Japan.

samokan · (#60 (**permalink**))

Quote:

Originally Posted by YoshimiTheEthereal

Does Japan have no dryers or something? What is with you people not using a dryer? And is it true that to use the toilet, you have to squat over top of it?

Well normally, they don't since as other pointed out it's just a waste of energy and money when you hang your clothes in the balcony. My cousin opted to get one since she has 3 kids, and clothes need to be dried quick or else their house would be full of clothes , and yes currently released washing machines here are already equip with dyers.

I'm not sure where the others live, but in my area there are around 3-4 coin laundry all equip with dryers so if i need to have my clothes dried quick I just go there and it would only cost me 100yen/20 minutes..

Most japanese homes that I've visited are using Western style toilet, mostly those ones with automatic shower/bidi or butt cleaner

Squat toilet are still very common, even the classy buildings do still have them. Basically Japanese woman do prefer the squat ones rather than western since they don't want their butt touching the bowl without sanitizing them.