Kurashi no Michishirube (kurashi-info.hicross.jp) is a collection of links that helps foreign residents in Japan find the websites of national and local governments, international associations and other organizations.
Some pages on this site also bring together information for daily life, such as how to sort garbage, based on information published by local governments.
We use generative AI to find the links we list and to translate. Output from generative AI can contain mistakes or outdated information.
"✓ Checked" on a card means the operator actually opened the linked page and checked it. Cards without it have not been checked by a person yet. At the top of each list page, you can filter to show only checked links.
If you find a mistake or a broken link, please let us know →The operator is a Japanese person who founded and ran a company in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, for 13 years. Living in Vietnam as a foreigner, they struggled to deal with paperwork at government offices and to find information for daily life across the language barrier.
Based on that experience, they created this site to make things even a little easier for foreign residents in Japan facing the same difficulties.
This site is not run by a government agency. Operated by HI Cross Management.