Filipino Community in Japan

21/04/2025

📢 Mabuhay! We’re Back! 🇵🇭✨

After a long break, we're reviving this page to serve as your trusted source of updates, guides, and community support for all Filipinos living in Gifu Prefecture!

➡️ Expect regular posts about life in Japan, important announcements, and useful tips for daily living.
We want to help make your life easier and more informed here in Japan.

Let’s support each other and grow together as united Filipino community. 💛🇯🇵🇵🇭

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

Community Report:

On April 28, 2024, our first Craft Therapy Activity in Minokamo City has been successfully held. There were around 25 participants, adults and children included.

This activity aims to give parents and children a time to bond and express their creativity through crafting.

The next activity will be on May 25, 2024. We hope that you can join us!

01/01/2024

Please keep safe everyone!

Few reminders just in case more aftershocks
Will come..

21/10/2023

Hi! Just want to inform Foreign Residents living in Gifu about something I did last week.

Pickup from meeting with Gifu police

-Discussed with the Gifu police about the collected opinions and concerns from foreign residents (good and bad opinions in a very direct manner)
-The Gifu police knows that times are changing (aging population and globalization) and that they have to improve on how to effectively communicate with foreigners.
-We talked about the word “gaijin”. “Gaijin” sometimes have a negative meaning. Gaikokujin is a more neutral and somewhat more formal term widely used in the Japanese government and in media. So if a police or any government official calls you a ‘gaijin’, patiently tell them to refer to you as a ‘gaikokujin’.
-I asked them to improve their homepage and make it easy to navigate
-If a police knocks on your door, don’t panic. The neighbor police officer is probably there for their “Junkai renraku” or police courtesy call.

- There is a translator (english/tagalog) available on weekdays at Kani Police station. Ask for the translator as necessary.

06/10/2023

To friends living in Kani Minokamo,

Nakapag-isip na ba kayo ng Autumn 🍂 Activity kasama ng grade school kids ninyo?

Kung hindi pa, bakit hindi itry ang fun learning activity offer na ito 👇👇👇

Tagalog 🇵🇭
Japanese 🇯🇵
Brazilian 🇧🇷

31/08/2023

What is KOBUTSUSHO

It is the permit you need to be able to buy and sell
Second hand items in Japan.

WHEN APPLYING:
Ensure that you meet the eligibility criteria.
In Japan, you usually need to be at least 20 years old
and have a clean criminal record to apply for a
Kobutsu-sho license.