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In-house clinics, nurseries and mothers’ rooms — Japanese offices that look after health on site.
Health management — kenkō keiei (健康経営) — has become a stated goal for many Japanese companies. Some go as far as building a clinic, a nurse’s room, a mothers’ room or a nursery into the office itself.
01 · Toyosu, Tokyo
SCSK Clinic
Of the four photo groups on its recruiting page, three are about looking after the people who work there: a restaurant that serves nutritionally balanced meals, a clinic, and a room where licensed staff give massages during working hours.
Read the SCSK office →
02 · Higashi, Kumamoto
The nursery
The list of what this building contains reads less like an office and more like a small town: a hall, a canteen for two hundred and fifty, a pub, a gym with a studio, two nurseries.
Read the EGAO office →
03 · Shinagawa, Tokyo
The health management centre
24F holds a barber’s shop, a health management centre with a clinic, and a mothers’ room, alongside work space.
Read the OBAYASHI office →
04 · Otemachi, Tokyo
The childcare room
One floor holds a childcare room: low shelving, a patterned mat and a wall of small windows.
Read the Japan Post Holdings office →
05 · Nagatachō, Tokyo
The corridor to the medical room
A medical room with a nurse on duty, and a mothers’ room for staff with young children, finish the floor, along with the lockers that free address requires.
Read the MITSUBISHI RESEARCH INSTITUTE office →
06 · Akasaka, Tokyo
The in-house clinic
“Good work comes from a healthy body”, the company says.
Read the HAKUHODO office →
Questions
WALL has picked 7: SCSK (Toyosu, Tokyo), EGAO (Higashi, Kumamoto), OBAYASHI (Shinagawa, Tokyo), Japan Post Holdings (Otemachi, Tokyo), MITSUBISHI RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Nagatachō, Tokyo), HAKUHODO (Akasaka, Tokyo), Amazon Japan (Meguro, Tokyo).
They are spread across 2 places: Tokyo (6), Kumamoto (1).
Most are private workplaces and not open to the public. WALL reports on them from the companies’ own published material; each office page links to its source.
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