Foreign care workers in Japan: a policy without a vision
Author: Hirano Yūko
Categories: In-Depth with Nippon.com
Japan will lower specific immigration barriers this year to ease a projected shortage of professional care workers for the elderly. A health sociologist draws on extensive research to critique the government’s shortsighted, private-sector-driven approach to the problem, calling for greater efforts to support and export Japan’s advanced system of care work.
Tags: aging population, economic partnership, EPA, Foreign care workers, foreign nurses, Indonesia, Japan, Japanese, Southeast Asia, Technical intern training program, the philippines, Vietnam
U.S., Japan Join Philippines in Navy Drills Near South China Sea
Author: Bloomberg
Categories: Daily Japan News
As territorial disputes escalate in the South China Sea, the United States and Japan separately conduct military drills with the Philippines.
Tags: carat, China, Japan, navy, Philippines, South China Sea, spratly islands, the philippines, United States