One of the features cited by reviewers and readers as extremely useful is the chapter describing all the options available for health insurance (this has been completely revised to reflect recent changes in Japanese law. Nowhere else is this information made available in English with such detail and clarity). Women readers have particularly welcomed the information on gynecological exams in Japan, since this is hard to find elsewhere. In addition, the chapter on childbirth is often cited for the exhaustive options it provides, and the helpful inclusion of all the Japanese terms a non-fluent mother needs.

The book covers everything from listings of doctors throughout the country who are fluent in English and whether or not they accept insurance, to acupuncture and alternative healing, and the differences in children's health care between East and West. The book has been completely revised, expanded, and updated. Readers who bought the first version are likely to want this new edition as well.