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Though foreign workers are essential in driving Japan’s economic growth, the Kishida administration remains reluctant in adopting a formal immigration policy.

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A government panel on Friday compiled a final report on a new system to replace Japan's controversial trainee program for foreigners,

In line with the visionary objective set forth by the Honble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi , to...

This article asks how Japan’s Technical Intern Training Program (TITP) has promoted a transfiguration of employer into predator who utilizes fraudulent economic strategies to exploit trainees under the abusive conditions. Situating Japan’s case within the global dynamics of temporary labor migration as well as drawing on the critical discussions about the ‘informal economy’, I argue that the formation and expansion of the unequal capital–labor power relations, facilitated by the processes of informalization under the TITP in Japan and the sending countries, has constructed trainees a...

The government plans to allow foreign nationals to switch jobs after working for one to two years, instead of the initially planned “at least one year,” under a new system that will replace the Technical Intern Training Program.