More than three-quarters of Japanese companies have no plan to pull back from promoting workplace diversity and ...

Somalia and its breakaway region of Somaliland have not received any proposal from the United States or Israel to resettle ...

A growing number of rental properties in the Tokyo metropolitan area are available fully furnished and fitted with electronic appliances. While these types of properties were previously mainly ...

including those of foreign nationals, fell to a record low of 720,988 in 2024, marking the ninth consecutive year of decline. Japan’s declining birthrate shows no sign of slowing. According to ...

A new Chinese tool capable of cutting the most fortified undersea data cable has stoked fears for the spider web of ...

Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Meanwhile in China newsletter ... to advance its influence in the wake of Trump’s US foreign policy upset. Trump’s shake-up was obvious even in the room ...

TOKYO -- Japanese health officials will soon open the doors wider for foreign health workers to provide in-home nursing care, Nikkei has learned, in a bid to ease the labor shortage in the field.

while the No. 2 visa allows for unlimited renewals, opening the path to permanent residency, and permits workers to bring spouses and children to Japan. The number of foreign workers in Japan reached ...

The number of foreign nationals living in Japan surpassed 3.7 million as of the end of 2024, marking a 10.5% increase from the previous year and setting a new record for the third consecutive year ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks at a meeting of ministers where new measures for accepting foreign workers were ... The Specified Skilled Worker No. 1 visa allows holders to spend ...