Foreigners can also receive the Covid-19 vaccine for free. Your municipal government will issue vaccine vouchers, which you can use to receive the vaccine.

If you have questions regarding the Covid-19 vaccination program, please contact the following call centres.

1. General concerns regarding the vaccine voucher, vaccination process, or vaccination centres etc.

• List of Municipal Consultation Call Centres:

https://www.pref.kagoshima.jp/ae06/kenko-fukushi/kenko-iryo/kansen/kansensho/documents/85983_20210414115557-1.pdf

2. Technical or medical concerns such as vaccination side effects.

Kagoshima Prefectural Vaccination Call Centre

• TEL: 099-833-3221 (Covid-19 Call Centre)
• Operating Hours: 10:00 - 17:00 (Including weekends and public holidays)

※English, Mandarin, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Spanish, and Portuguese consultations available.

3. Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's Vaccine Call Centre

• TEL: 0120-761-770 (Toll-free)
• Operating Hours: 9:00 - 21:00 (Including weekends and public holidays)
• Japanese, English, Mandarin, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish: 9:00 - 21:00
• Thai: 9:00 - 18:00
• Vietnamese: 10:00 - 19:00

Latest Covid-19 vaccine information by Kagoshima Prefecture [Japanese only]

https://www.pref.kagoshima.jp/ae06/kenko-fukushi/kenko-iryo/kansen/kansensho/covid19-vaccine.html

Kagoshima Prefecture's Consultation Desk for Foreign Residents (070-7662-4541) will respond to other everyday issues and concerns.

↓Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's "COVID-19 Multilingual Guide"

https://www.c19.mhlw.go.jp

Japan's government has declared a state of emergency for Tokyo, Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa to stem the spread of the coronavirus. The declaration will be in effect from January 8^th until February 7^th.

For details, check the links below.

【NHK WORLD JAPAN】

https://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld-blog/100/441872.html?cid=wohk-doml-org_site_state_of_emergency_0107_gs-202101-001

The country is calling for everyone who plans to attend gatherings or festivals to behave responsibly.

We are informing citizens in a variety of languages.

Please read and confirm the details in your native language.

Cabinet Secretariat: Poster for the Prevention of Covid-19

やさしい日本語：https://corona.go.jp/ja-easy/

English(英語)：https://corona.go.jp/en/

Typhoon season has arrived. Please read the information written here.

Please take care of the strong winds and heavy rainfall.

English: Information in regard to the conditions of Typhoon

https://www.jma.go.jp/en/typh/

(15 Languages) Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) Homepage

https://www.jma.go.jp/jma/kokusai/multi.html

NEWS WEB EASY (やさしい日本語（にほんご）)

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/

NHK WORLD-JAPAN

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/

Kagoshima Prefectural Government Homepage. Machine translation is available in 7 languages if you press the 'foreign languages' button.

https://www.pref.kagoshima.jp/kenmin/index.html