Japan may lift work visa restrictions for foreign nurses and dentists to help care for its fast-aging and shrinking population, the government said Monday.
The immigration bureau is considering a plan to abolish visa limits for hundreds of nurses from the Philippines and Indonesia that currently restrict them to working in Japan for only seven years.
A bureau official said it may also soon invite nurses from other countries.
The changes may come as early as this month and as soon as the bureau formally endorses a new five-year policy plan, the official said. FULL STORY
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