Junn Ohta wrote:

>>Can someone give me an informed opinion on the necessity of health
>>checks in Japan?
> 
> 
> Workers must have a medical examination once a year.
> See Roudou-Anzen-Eisei-Hou 66jou (roughly as: Workers
> Safety and Health Law) #66.
> 
> http://www.jil.go.jp/kikaku-qa/hourei/main/4/h3470100000570.html#J066000000


Thanks! At last a "real" answer (no slight intended to those who offered
opinions and advice, but I really wanted to find out the law). My
japanese is rather limited, so can you confirm that it really says that
the workers have to have the examination, rather than just that one has
to be provided? What would the penalty be for not taking the test?

Since I will actually be back in my home country while this farce is
going on at work, perhaps I can just tell them that I saw a doctor while
I was there. Perhaps I really _will_ see a doctor, but it will be a much
simpler and faster afffair than in Japan. We don't just get a quick
once-over here, a whole troupe of doctors come on-site and there are eye
tests, blood and urine tests, the x-ray, height and weight measurements
and then at the end of it we are each given a list of numbers with no
explanation or advice even if the results are "poor" (according to their
classification).

James
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by treading on the toes of giants.
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