The length of time for highly skilled foreign professionals to apply for their permanent residency may be shortened under a new move which Is being considered by the Japanese government. This news comes as Japan is aiming to lure more global talent as they have a shortage of skilled workers. The current system only grants privileges [...]
Recently Japan's Prime minister Shinzo Abe has revised the immigration law to allow for as many as 345,000 migrants workers to enter Japan in the net five years. However the Prime Minister has repeatedly said that the new new visa system does not constitute an immigration policy. “This system is needed for talented foreign personnel to [...]
From April 2019 Japan is expecting to welcome between 260,000 and 340,000 foreign workers in the next five years through an envisioned immigration control law revision. This is due to the fact Japan are aiming to deal with their country's labour crunch, government sources have said. The numbers of workers are a rough estimate, opposition parties [...]
The Japanese government is expecting hundreds of thousands of foreigners coming for jobs as the country suffers with a population decline and a labour shortage. The government has decided to upgrade their Ministry's Immigration Bureau into an agency that will be able the respond to the expected surge in work, as they set to open the [...]
In a bid to improve the shortage of labour workers Tokyo has opened its arms to greet low skilled foreign workers. Previously and more commonly Japan has been known to only accept highly skilled foreign workers but has now changed their mind as the ageing population has had an effect on the labour workforce. In June [...]
