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I am not one of the most pro-active people on this planet. In fact it is safe to say I may be one of the least. In a world with a corporate business culture where initiative and drive are rewarded and revered I will always fail. For after getting around to opening my own bank account after almost eight months living in Japan, I have just got around to arranging my own medical insurance coming up now to nine and almost ten months living in Japan.

The interesting thing is that as I have been here since June I will have to back pay for the insurance since June. Cunningly enough if I had had to use the Japanese medical facilities in that time when I was uninsured I would have had to pay full price for the medical costs. It seems unfair that they wouldn`t have agreed to cover the costs if I had paid for the insurance for or even from that month. Reiko told me a situation where if someone didn`t pay the insurance then got ill, paid it for one month and then stopped paying it until the next time he got ill that would be unfair though and I guess she is right.

In England we have the excellent National Health Service which means I have only paid for the time spent in hospitals and at the doctors indirectly through my taxes. Well if it`s so good in England then why don`t you move back there then I hear you cry. Well yeah I guess.

I still haven`t got the insurance yet.