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RIKEN Wako Branch

RIKEN employees: To do list for your first days at RIKEN

1 Contract  
2 RIKEN ID card  
3 Welcome Session Compulsory
1st of each month or next business day- 10 AM
4 Register new address at the designated city hall

Required: RC (Residence Card) and passport
Notes:
1. On your employment start date:
Register your "new address at city hall" (makes your Residence Card a valid ID).

<Attention>
If your address is registered before your employment start date, the following must be completed at the same time at city hall:

Register family at the designated city hall

2.  To register your family at the designated city hall, official documents are required to verify the relationship of each family member (Ex. Marriage certificate, Birth certificate) with Japanese translations (Templates: Marriage certificate, Birth certificate).
If you have children, Subsidy for Infant/Child Medical Expenses and Child Allowance may be applied for.

5 Open a bank account Required: RC after address registration, home address, personal phone number and seal (most Japanese banks) or signature (limited banks only)
Notes: SMBC Trust Bank offers RIKEN a Special benefit program (RIKEN ID and signature (OK) are required)
6 Enrollment documents pack Submission deadline: 2nd of each month or next business day
Note: Medical Examination Certificate (sample) is required for a new hire. If you will have the medical checkup in Japan, please contact wiss@riken.jp
7 Email address Provided by the General Affairs Div., IT Section
8 International SOS card(s) 24h-7day medical & security assistance program
Provided with contract
9 Health insurance card(s)
Password is required. Please ask the RIKEN laboratory.
Provided after submitting the enrollment documents
10 Benefit station card Provided after submitting the enrollment documents
11 Credit card Optional
12 Survival Japanese Courses Optional
13 Family Support Services ・Wako Kosodate Network (Wako Childcare Network):
 
・Bambini:

 

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