Japan to provide greater COVID-19 vaccine support to foreign residents
The government will ensure that vaccination vouchers are sent without fail to foreign nationals while also promoting multilingual COVID-19 consultation services via telephone.
With the number of non-Japanese continuing to grow, the prefecture is hoping to help all of its residents with more accessible information.
The rising figure is believed to reflect an increase in the number of people holding the visas.
Film spotlights Vietnamese temporary workers' plight in Japan
When director Akio Fujimoto's "Along the Sea" reaches theaters nationwide next spring, he hopes the plight of Vietnamese temporary workers depicted in the film will show the exploitative reality their like face in Japan at times. A co-production with a Vietnamese film company, the movie ...
‘Inclusion’ the watchword as Japan tackles trainees’ isolation
Participants in a recent Tokyo forum said young interns can become socially excluded because their interactions tend not to extend beyond the work sphere.
Vietnamese trainee nurses arrive in Japan after coronavirus delay
Negotiations are taking place with Indonesia and the Philippines to expedite the arrival of candidate health workers from those nations, too.
JICA aid agency to launch group to help foreign workers in Japan
Toyota Motor Corp. and Ajinomoto Co. are among companies that have joined the body.
Oyster firms suffer as travel ban exposes reliance on foreign trainees
The shortage of manpower due to the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to deal a heavy blow to Hiroshima Prefecture’s oyster industry.
Japan to double coronavirus checks at major airports to 20,000 daily
The government will double the daily number of airport checks for the coronavirus to about 20,000 following the recent relaxation of entry restrictions, health minister Norihisa Tamura said Saturday. Tamura revealed the plan to reporters after taking a firsthand look at quarantine operations at Narita ...
Oita residents group providing rice for foreign interns in need
The group hopes to continue until September, and will need more than 3 tons of rice.
Japan to allow stranded foreign technical interns to switch jobs
The Immigration Services Agency said around 24,200 foreign trainees were stuck in the country as of Friday, and the number of such interns is expected to grow.
Foreign trainees in Hiroshima face illegal hours and unpaid overtime
Fewer Japanese people want to work in sewing jobs, one industry insider said.
