| $Diary July 31, 2008$ "The new medical checkup / health guidance system brought a higher demand for medical checkup items in Japan." |
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The new nation of medical checkup system for enterprises had already started last April in Japan. This is the so-called metabolic medical checkup system, but this system will increase the number of companies carrying out a new medical checkup because this new system has a punitive clause for the company. As a result, a lot of medical checkup items will surely occur in August of the present year. I talked with different staffs in charge of the medical checkup every year. And one of them, from one of our conversation, said that she was assigned to work for the first time in the medical checkup this August and she also said that she thought it was because of the effect or influence of the new medical checkup system. Her answer really astounded me because I've heard that usually in August there is no so much work to do specially on medical checkups. I am going to travel overseas this August to either Korea or USA but I postponed the trip just to work on that month due to the fact that I got attracted with the very interesting offer of an hourly wage. So I changed my plan and decided to travel on the start of September instead of August. But the medical checkup items will suddenly increase during September and the schedule for September must be filled-up. Even the medical checkups for the month of November will be coming in. This is due to the fact that the medical checkups for the month of November usually arrive in July and you can expect an increase on the number of considerable items starting from the month of September up to the end of the year. Under the influence of the new medical checkup system, we can expect that in January or even in February, medical checkup items may considerably increase. But it was noted that there was a few number of medical checkups in the average year. Moreover, the large increased on the medical checkup items were already seen on the month of August. Does this means I cannot travel overseas even on the month of January and February? Can I travel on the middle of the month of October or November? The new medical checkup / health guidance system brought a higher demand for medical checkup items in Japan. |