Largely based in Kanagawa Prefecture, NPO Multi-Language Information Center (MIC Kanagawa) has provided medical interpreter services since 2002. Currently MIC Kanagawa assists with approximately 7000 foreign language interpretation cases a year, covering 12 different languages including many Southeast-Asian languages. Interpreters are trained thoroughly before being dispatched to a medical institution.

Members of FIT For Charity Organizing Committee visited the MIC Kanagawa office to hear the stories of Executive Representative Mr. Katsumi Matsuno, Vice President Ms. Yoko Iwamoto, and English Interpreter Ms. Kei Tanaka.

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