Trainees who have spent 3 or more years in Japan ... a new visa status is unclear. Japanese government officials and businesses eager to employ foreign workers have lots of work ahead, because ...

As of the end of October 2019, Japan had about 1.66 million foreign workers, according to the official figures. Those include technical interns who have a work permit and students allowed to take ...

A similar exemption has already been adopted for foreigners working under Japan's technical trainee program. Specified Skilled Worker visa holders are eligible to work in 16 industries facing ...

Japan is set to introduce a six-month visa for remote workers or digital nomads who earn at least 10 million yen (£53k) ...

TOKYO -- Japan will work to ease the financial burden of foreign nationals coming to work in the country under a new government employment program, Nikkei has learned. The program, dubbed ...

For example, visa holders can work longer overtime hours ... Labor ministry figures show that 2,048,675 foreigners were working in Japan as of the end of October 2023, up 225,950 from a year ...

An Indonesian man will be the first to take advantage of Japan extending the scope of its specified skilled worker visa to encompass the road transportation sector when he begins work as a bus driver ...

The number of foreign residents in Japan is ... and more workers from overseas will come to Japan thanks to the new law which introduce a new visa status for them. The NHK survey shows that ...