Foreign Trainees News Today

The local fishing industry heavily depends on foreign trainees amid a shortage of fishers.

Employment-related visas saw significant growth amid the countrys efforts to address its acute labor shortage.

Currently, foreign technical intern trainees and foreign workers with so-called specified skills are banned from engaging in the services.

A mere 45 foreign trainees affected by a powerful earthquake in central Japan have been granted permission to work outside their designated workplaces about a month after exceptional measures started, according to immigration authorities.

A planned new system will focus on securing and developing essential workers from abroad to tackle the countrys current labor shortage.

Opening up to job seekers from abroad may ultimately be the countrys best hope of stemming a rapid population decline.

Tokyo has the largest population of foreign workers, followed by Aichi and Osaka prefectures.

In many cases, intermediary organizations advised Vietnamese trainees that they would be sent home if they got pregnant.

The special measure was introduced after a deadly temblor rocked the Noto Peninsula and its vicinity in central Japan on New Years Day.

Nirmal Singh and Shiv Kumar beat the odds on the Technical Intern Training Program, but luck shouldnt play such a key role in a government initiative.