Japan

• Child education allowance of JPY 13,000 per month
• on 4/6/2010
• Child education allowance of JPY 13,000 per month from this year April 1st for whole year 2010 and will be subsequently increased to JPY26,000 from next year. You can get this benefits even if your child is not residing with in Japan.

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• More than 20 passports stolen from visa application service office
• on 1/25/2010

• More than 20 passports disappeared last month from the office of a Tokyo firm employed to accept visa applications by the Embassy of India.

  
  

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