A non-Japanese worker — let's call him T — wrote to Lifelines with some questions about the shakai hoken social insurance system. Here's what he had to say:
I'm a foreigner working at a company in Tokyo.
I started working there full-time in February 2016. I was the first employee the company hired after it was established.
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