thanks for the site, HC.

I am interested in both sites, actually, to pass along to others on the teachers' blog I edit here. I wonder how much this guy actually knows, though. He wrote:
National Health Insurance is also based on your income. For zero income earners, there is a base fee of approximately 7000yen. If you have some form of income, then you must also pay an additional 5% ‘medical levy’. So for someone earning 4,000,000yen/year, expect your health insurance to be about 150,000yen/year.
Teachers just starting out make about 3 million yen/year, and after their first year here, they pay about twice that in NHI premiums, sometimes more. Maybe he just believes that everyone gets copayments from their employer, which is outright false.

Still, thanks. I only just opened the file and will continue to read it.