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Filipinos and Nepalese face challenges in Japan even as their communities grow
While Japan tends to be uneasy about immigration, it is simultaneously host to many non-Japanese people working hard to make lives for themselves, including sizable communities from the Philippines and Nepal.
Japan cracks door for foreign housekeepers but pay, rights remain major issues
Restrictions on hiring foreign housekeepers are being eased to help women with children re-enter the workforce, but high prices and labor rights remain hurdles to expanding the industry.
Under new program, foreign housekeepers will start work in Kanagawa and Osaka in March
The first foreign housekeepers to be hired under a government policy aimed at helping Japanese professional women re-enter the workforce will take up their new duties as early as March.
Tokyo warms to idea of reducing immigration hurdles for foreign housekeepers
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government considers asking the central government for special deregulated zone status so it can import foreign housekeepers.
Osaka moves to allow foreign housekeepers
Osaka Prefecture has decided to go ahead with a national government program allowing foreign nationals to work as housekeepers as part of a larger push toward greater participation of women in the workforce. Some industry insiders have been quick to point out, however, that the ...
