My company that I will be entering this April asks for an emergency contact (緊急連絡先) but I currently don’t have anyone that I can ask.
I’ve always asked my school for this, but since I graduated they refused. Now that my company is my sponsor / the closest thing to my guardian, I’ve actually asked them to become my EC for moving apartments. But who should be the emergency contact for them?
I know that a lot of people just put anyone as their EC, but I feel like I should at least think about the time that they will be needing it, i.e. it’s gonna be for when I suddenly don’t show up to the office because I die or something serious like that. So it can’t just be anyone. Shit happens, and right now I don’t have anyone that close to be asked for that.
Should I ask my country’s embassy, or contacting the officials is already the procedure for emergency like that, thus I don’t need to personally put it as mine?
I just sent my company an email about this and just wanted to know what you guys did in this situation.
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Just put your country’s ambassador’s name along with the embassy phone number. Nobody will check.
I would either put someone that I trust deeply, or give them my mother’s American number
My company accepted my overseas relative’s contact info, so that could be an option for you as well
> I know that a lot of people just put anyone as their EC, but I feel like I should at least think about the time that they will be needing it, i.e. **it’s gonna be for when I suddenly don’t show up to the office because I die or something serious like that**. So it can’t just be anyone. Shit happens, and right now I don’t have anyone that close to be asked for that.
If you don’t have anyone then you don’t have anyone. There’s not much to think about.
Just give them a family member’s contact details even if they aren’t in Japan. Surely you’d want them to be the first to know if you went missing anyway.
Do it have a friend or neighbor? Since it is a company 緊急連絡先 most people won’t mind as they would on an apartment rental, etc.
I asked a fellow non-Japanese friend’s Japanese wife to be mine.