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Japan, Tokyo – The Japanese government plans to ease language requirements for foreign technical interns to work in the nursing care business as part of efforts to bring in more laborers from abroad, government sources said Wednesday.
Japan opened up its nursing care sector for foreigners who are willing to work as trainees from November 2017. But the number of such trainees has grown at a sluggish pace apparently due to the Japanese language proficiency requirements, which have been set higher than interns in other sectors.
Currently, the care workers are allowed to extend their stay on the condition that they pass a certain level of a Japanese language test a year after they arrive in Japan. If they fail, they have to return to their own country.
But the government now plans to allow the workers to stay two additional years as long as they express their willingness to continuously study the language, according to the sources.
The change in the system could go into effect possibly in March, they said.
Source and full English article: The Mainichi
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190221/p2g/00m/0na/003000c
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