A private hospital group in Nagoya is supporting youths from Indonesia who went through three-year training stints in Japan to become licensed nurses but who had no choice but to return to their home country after failing to pass the state certification exam here.
For this year's certification exam, held Feb. 16, the Kaikokai group, which runs Nagoya Kyoritsu Hospital in Nakagawa Ward, sponsored challenges by six such youths to take the exam for the second time.
The five women and one man originally came to Japan to undergo training at hospitals between 2008 and 2010 after the Japanese government signed bilateral economic partnership agreements with Indonesia and the Philippines in the late 2000s, opening doors to nurses and caregivers from the two countries.