(1) Maternal and child health handbook
Report your pregnancy to the citizens' affairs section at the city hall to receive a maternal and child health handbook. Your and your child's health conditions are recorded on the handbook. You need to submit it to have an infant medical checkup, immunization, etc.
【Inquiry】
Fujimi-shi Kenkozoshin Center：tel.049-252-3771
Fujimino-shi Kamifukuoka Hoken Center：tel.049-264-8292
Miyoshi-machi Kodomoshien-ka Jidofukushi-kakari：tel.049-258-0019
Miyoshi-machi Hoken Center：tel.049-258-1236

(2)Maternal and child health promotion staff（Fujimi-shi）・New born baby visit（Fujimi-shi, Fujimino-shi & Miyoshi-machi）
Maternal and child health promotion staff visits you at home and provides a consulting service. Public health nurses and midwives visit and take care new-born-baby.
【Inquiry】
Fujimi-shi Kenkozoshin center：tel.049-252-3771
Fujimino-shi Kamifukuoka Hoken Center：tel.049-264-8292
Miyoshi-machi Hoken center：tel.049-258-1236

(3) If you have difficulties for childbirth expenses
If you are in financial difficulties, you may receive a benefit for childbirth
(A) Financial aid system for hospitalized childbirth
There is qualification･standard for it. If you have been living in Fujimi city for more than two years, consult with the child care support section by three months before childbirth. If you are in financial difficulties, you may receive a benefit for childbirth.
(B) Childbirth support system at designated hospitals
There is qualification･standard for it. Consult before childbirth. If you are in financial difficulties, you may receive financial support if you give birth at designated hospitals.
【Inquiry】
Fujimi-shi Shogaifukushi-ka：tel.049-251-2711
Miyoshi-machi Kodomoshien-ka Jidofukushi-kakari：tel.049-258-0019

(1) Register the birth
Have the birth registered within 14 days of the birth. Submit a completed form of birth notification, a maternal and child health handbook, and a national health insurance card (if you are covered).

(2) Baby handbook (Fujimi-shi)
You will receive a baby handbook when you have the birth registered. It provides you with interview sheet for medical checkups, useful information for childcare, etc.

(3) Hello Akachan！Call on new born baby’s family
Public nurse visits home to give nursing mother childcare information and advice

(4)Infant medical checkup・ consultation
  The city/town provides regular medical checkups for infants as follows.  Target babies and children are 4-months, 12-months, 18-months and 3-years old in Fujimi-shi, 4-months, 18-months and 3-years old in Fujimino-shi and 4-months, 10-months, 18-months, 2-years old and 3 years-old in Miyoshi-machi. A checkup covers interview, body measurement, medical examination, development check, counseling, and / or dental checkup. You will receive an announcement around 20th of the previous month of each medical checkup.

(5) Immunization
Children receive immunizations against infectious diseases individually or in a group. This service is free of charge as long as it is held at designated hospitals in targeted ages. You can get immunization pre-examination slips when you visit city/town hall to register the birth. People get on one year older on one day before birthday legally. Therefore child ‘less than two-year-old’ means child born on two days before two-year-old birthday and less. Please pay attention that inoculation on one day before birthday is charged.
(A) Babies and toddlers group immunization (at health promotion center or public health center)
〇Polio
Target age group: Three-month to seven-year-and-six-month
Receive two inoculations at an interval of six weeks or longer. Do not eat or drink for thirty minutes before and after an inoculation.

(B) Babies and toddlers individual immunization (at medical institutions)
〇BCG
Target age group: Baby from three-month-old to less than six-month -old.
Receive one inoculation.
〇Diphtheria, Pertussis and Tetanus mixed
Target age group: Three-month to seven-year-and-six-month
Inoculation： First stage, receive inoculation three times at 20 to 56 days interval. Additional：Once after one year to one and half year of the first stage.
〇Measles, Meals Rubella Both mixed
Target age, the first stage： Twelve-month to less than 24-month
Target age, the second stage： Five to less than 7 years old (one year before entering elementary school.)
〇Japanese encephalitis
Target age: 3-year to less than 7 and half-years old. Frequency of vaccination required is three times
 First stage initial is twice in 5〜28 days interval. Additional is once after one year later of initial injection.
Those who were born between 1995~2006 are advised to check maternity health-record book whether they inoculated or not. Then, please contact your home doctor and apply inoculation.
 〇Hib vaccine (Optional vaccination)
Target: Two month-old〜less than 5 years-old
Frequency of vaccination required is once to four times dependent on ages. Please consult vaccination doctor.
〇Pneumococcal vaccine for children (Optional vaccination)
Target: Two month-old〜less than 5 years-old
Frequency of vaccination required is once to four times dependent on ages. Please consult vaccination doctor.

(C) Elementary school, junior and senior high school students' immunization (at medical institutions)
〇Japanese encephalitis
Target age group: Nine to less than 13 years old.
Each one inoculation required.
〇Diphtheria & Tetanus
Target age group: 11 to less than 13 years old
 Each one inoculation required
〇Measles・Rubella both mixed
Target age, the third stage: twelve to thirteen years old.
The forth stage: seventeen to eighteen years old. Each one inoculation required.
〇 Vaccination of cervical cancer (Optional vaccination)
Target age: First grader of junior high school〜first grader of senior high school students (female)
Frequency of vaccination required is three times (interval of vaccination changes dependent to vaccine)
・ Bivalent vaccine ( cervarix)
second : one month later , third: six months later from first vaccination respectively
・ Quadrivalent vaccine ( gardasil)
second : two months later , third: six months later from first vaccination respectively.

(D)When a child cannot receive inoculations?
A child cannot receive inoculations in the following cases. Having a high temperature above 37.5 degree centigrade or being within two weeks after the temperature; being within four weeks after healing of the measles; being within two〜four weeks after healing of the rubella, chickenpox, mumps or the like; being one 〜 two weeks after healing of the virus diseases.
【Inquiry】
Fujimi-shi Kenkozoshin Center：tel.049-252-3771
Fujimino-shi Kamifukuoka Hoken Center：tel.049-264-8292
Miyoshi-machi Hoken Center：tel.049-258-1236

(1) Child-rearing allowance system
A person who is nurturing children up to finishing three year course of junior high school (up to date of first March 31st after 15th birthday) can receive child-rearing allowance. To receive the allowance, you must complete the foreign resident registration and be the guardian of child and support your family.
Furthermore, you are required to live together with child .

(2) Infant medical expenses allowance system
A person who has completed the foreign resident registration and has medical insurance may receive the allowance for co-payment of preschool children.

(3）Medical expenses allowance for children
A person who has completed the foreign resident registration and is enrollee of medical insurance is eligible to get subsidy for co-payment of school children.

(4) Medical expenses allowance for lone-parent household
Single parent and his/her children aged below 18 are covered by this allowance system for co-payment. To receive the allowance, you must complete the foreign resident registration, must be an enrollee of medical insurance and your income must be below the income limitation.

(5) Medical expenses allowance for the severely disabled
Those who have completed the foreign resident registration, have medical insurance and hold either physical disability certificate 1, 2, or 3 or medical treatment certificate (A), A, or B are qualified to receive the allowance for co-payment.

(6) Childcare allowance
A single-mother or a single father family, or a family of a disabled mother or father who is rearing children aged below 18 may receive the allowance. To receive the allowance, you must complete the foreign resident registration and your income must be below the income limitation.

(7) Special childcare allowance
A father, mother or fosterer who has disabled children aged below 20 may receive the allowance. To receive the allowance, you must complete the foreign resident registration and your income must be below the income limitation.
【Inquiry】
Fujimi-shi Kosodateshien-ka・Shogaifukushi-ka：tel.049-251-2711
Fujimi-shi Disabled Citizens’ Welfare Section： tel.049-251-2711
Fujimino-shi Kosodateshien-ka Kosodateshien-kakari：tel.049-262-9033, for Item (1)
Fujimino-shi Kosodateshien-ka Jidofukushi-kakari：tel.049-262-9034, as for Items (6)
Fujimino-shi Iryofukushika Iryo-kakari：tel.049-262-9041, as for Items (2) (3) (4) (5)
Fujimino-shi Shogaifukushi-ka Shomu-kakari：tel.049-262-9031, as for Item (7)
Miyoshi-machi Fukushi-ka Shogaifukushi-kakari ・Kodomoshien-ka Jidofukushi-kakari：tel.049-258-0019

When guardians cannot care children for some reason such as job, disease, etc., a day-care is available. Public day-care centers and private nursery schools in two cities and a town are referred to the Public Facilities Section of HP. Temporary day care is also available in some day-care centers and child care support center.

(1) Qualified children
Preschool children aged above two-month. It may vary depending on a day-care center.

(2) Fee for a day care
It depends on the amount of taxes that guardians have paid in the previous year.

(3) Application
Application dates are different in each city or town. Application for the next fiscal year starts in the end of November or the beginning of December of the previous year. To enter in the middle of a fiscal year, apply by the10th or 15th of the previous month. You are required to have foreign resident registration. You have to watch and wait for a vacancy in a day-care center.
【Inquiry】
Fujimi-shi Hoiku-ka：tel. 049-251-2711
Fujimino-shi Hoiku-ka Hoiku-kakari：tel.049-262-9035
Miyoshi-machi Kodomoshien-ka Hoiku-kakari：tel.049-258-0019
Miyoshi-machi Kosodateshien Center：tel.049-258-5106

(1) Hokago Jido Club (Gakudo hoikushitsu)
Hokago Jido clubs are public facilities where elementary school children can stay after school and during summer vacation if their guardians are not at home in daytime for jobs. There are 11 Hokago Jido Clubs in Fujimishi, 16 in Fujimino-shi and 4 in Miyoshi. Application is required to city or town hall to enroll your children. to school care centers.
【Inquiry】
Fujimi-shi Hoiku-ka：tel. 049-251-2711
Fujimino-shi Kosodateshien-ka Jidofukushi-kakari ：tel.049-263-7967
Miyoshi-machi Kodomoshien-ka：tel.049-258-0019

(2) Jido kan ・ Jido center
These facilities are aimed to give children hand-on learning and making friends through experiences and group activities. There are Sekizawa and Suwa Jido kan in Fujimi-shi; a Jido center in Fujimino-shi and three Jido kan in Miyoshi-machi. Please refer to the Facilities Section.