Japan has entered a new era both in terms of its leadership (or at least its state head) and labour dynamics, and with these changes come various question marks and …
In its goal to safeguard the interests of the foreign workers to be brought into the country through the new visa statuses, the government intends to regularly release figures of …
Towards the build-up for the expected entry of hundreds and thousands of foreign workers through the new visa statuses to be rolled out by April 2019, Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary …
The Department of Labour and Employment (DOLE) and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) have teamed up with a Japanese language institute to provide Japanese language training to hundreds …
With the announcement of the country’s plans to accommodate more blue-collar foreign workers starting April next year, Japan is also eyeing to upgrade the Justice Ministry’s Immigration Bureau into an …
The important (and seemingly inevitable) decision of Japan’s government to open its doors to more foreign workers is viewed as a timely and logical solution to cope with the nation’s …