An Indonesian man will be the first to take advantage of Japan extending the scope of its specified skilled worker visa to e ...

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 ...

Iyus, an Indonesian who first arrived in Japan in 2013, will work as a tour bus driver. Tokyo aims to welcome thousands of foreign workers to address labor shortages in various sectors, including tran ...

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

The visa was ... a domestic work force do not alleviate labor shortages. At the time, the government estimated that a maximum of 345,150 foreign workers would arrive in Japan over five years ...

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 ...

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 ...