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Bye-bye to the gaijin card, welcome to the Juki Net in ’12
According to the Immigration Bureau, the Ministry of Justice and immigration lawyers, the new law will bring about a few major changes.
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Foreign trainee program ‘like human trafficking’
The U.S. State Department said in its annual Trafficking in Persons Report that some conditions faced by participants in Japan’s foreign trainee program were similar to those seen in human trafficking operations.
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104 Indonesian nurses, caregivers to depart for Japan
“As the length of Japanese language training has been increased from six months at the beginning, and now to nine months, and to 12 months by next year, we all hope more candidates can pass the local examinations,” Indonesian Minister of Manpower and Transmigration Muhaimin Iskandar said.
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Men born in late 1970s tend to stay in nonregular jobs: gov’t paper
Men born in the latter half of the 1970s tend to be mired in nonregular jobs compared with those of other generations as work status such as temporary employment has spread since the 1990s, the labor ministry said in an annual report on labor economy released Friday.
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Tokyo finally grasps the migration nettle
“Unless radical policies are implemented, it is simply a matter of time before manufacturing, consumption, tax receipts, fiscal health, the pension and welfare system, and the very ability of people to make a living will all collapse under the inexorable dual pressures of rapid ageing and rapid declines in the young working population.”
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18 tax offices in 4 central Japan prefectures kept files on foreigners
Each of the tax offices are thought to have kept such files on more than 1,000 foreign taxpayers, but the number of those identified by nationality or alien registration number is not known.
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Govt to set point system for foreigners
The government will introduce a point system by the end of the year to give preferential treatment, such as easing the conditions for permanent residency, to non-Japanese with advanced expertise who want to come to Japan, according to a government source.
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An Immigration Stimulus for Japan
Hidenori Sakanaka, former Chief of Entry and Residence at the Nagoya and Tokyo Immigration Bureaus, argues that Japan allowing in more foreign workers would boost growth, especially in quake-ravaged areas.
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Gov’t eyes giving local public servants right to bargain over wages
The government is considering giving local public servants the right to forge agreements with their employers on their pay and working hours through negotiations in new legislation, government sources said Monday.
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30% of workers 15 to 24 ‘nonregular’
Nonregular employees accounted for 30.4 percent of workers aged 15 to 24 in calender 2010, up 0.4 percentage point from the previous year, the government said Tuesday.