Community Interpreting Research Seminar students create a guide to long-term care insurance for foreigners living in Fuchu City
January 22, 2025
On Friday, January 17th, 2025, as part of their internship, students from the Community Interpreting Research Seminar in the School of Language and Culture Studies held an online presentation to report on the completion of their guide to long-term care insurance for foreigners living in Fuchu City.
The Community Interpreting Research Seminar has been working with Fuchu City and the Fuchu International Salon to produce a series of “Easy Living Handbooks for Foreigners”, covering topics such as disaster prevention, putting out the rubbish, entering high school, public facilities, finding accommodation, places to go for a walk, pregnancy and childbirth, and moving procedures.
This year, they worked on a “Guide to Long-Term Care Insurance for Foreigners Living in Fuchu City”. The guide they produced will be made available online at a later date.
On the day of the completion report meeting, after the presentation of the contents of the guidebook and the circumstances surrounding its creation, there was a question and answer session between the students and the volunteers from the Fuchu International Salon. The question and answer session was a great success, with valuable feedback from the volunteers and other participating students. There was also an opportunity to exchange opinions using breakout sessions afterwards, and lively discussions took place in each room.
The following are comments from the students who participated in the completion report meeting.
Mr. YAMADA Taiki (3rd year student, Chinese major, School of Language and Culture Studies)
The creation of this Guide Book would not have been possible without the practical advice from the city hall and volunteers, and without the perspective of looking at the guide book as a whole.
I would like to express my gratitude for the way you proactively addressed the questions of the seminar students and cooperated with us to make improvements. I look forward to working with you in the future.
Ms. YAMANAKA Lisa (3rd year student, Arabic major, School of Language and Culture Studies)
The theme of this year's guidebook, long-term care insurance, is something that even we ourselves are not very familiar with, so the first step in creating it was to understand what long-term care insurance is. Introducing a complex system that has no tangible form is difficult, and we faced various challenges, but through repeated discussions and adjustments, from itemization to design and even down to individual words, I feel that we were able to complete a guidebook that is easy for foreigners to understand. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to everyone who helped with the creation of this guidebook, including the Fuchu City Hall and Fuchu International Salon staff.
Ms. TANAKA Riko (3rd year student, English major, School of Language and Culture Studies,)
During this semester, we have been working on the production of the Guide Book while facing the challenge of how to deal with the theme of “long-term care insurance”, which is difficult even for Japanese people.
As for elements such as readability and understandability, which have no correct answers, we have made improvements by comparing our own ideas with the opinions we received during the production stage, and I feel that we have been able to create a Guide Book that we can be satisfied with.
This is a simple Guide Book that can be used not only by foreigners, but also by native Japanese speakers, so I would like as many people as possible to take a look at it.
