Abe also implemented numerous reforms to Japan’s immigration control policy, including a points-based scheme to attract highly skilled foreign professionals as well as the 2019 launch of two new ...

Japan defends its immigration policy, ... "It is regrettable that the statement is not based on an accurate understanding of Japanese policy," said Tokyo on Friday, May 3, ...

Japan puts "social cohesion and societal harmony well ahead of any desire for diversity". But there has been a "major shift in policy". In the past few years, "radical" changes to visa and work-permit ...

NEWS ANALYSIS. Facing labor shortages, Japan is increasing immigration channels for foreign workers, but, officially, not for unskilled labor. The subject remains sensitive, as immigrants are ...

For people seeking refuge in Japan, they will be another obstacle. Japanese policy is already strongly oriented against granting refugee status. In 2022, only 202 people out of 3,772 applicants ...

A UN panel is asking Japan to review its approach on humanitarian grounds as some asylum seekers speak out. Japan’s immigration policy under scrutiny | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News Japan’s immigration ...

It was only when Japan’s labour shortage became clear in the 2010s that the LDP began to take front-door immigration policies seriously. But far-right groups within the LDP were opposed to the idea of ...

So, middle- and upper-class Chinese are increasingly joining a migration wave to Japan, he says. British immigration consulting firm Henley and Partners estimated in June that 13,500 Chinese ...

For hundreds of years, Japan was notorious for being closed off to foreigners. But over the past decade the country has been forced to start opening up to immigration, in need of foreign workers ...