Japan to OK home care visits by more foreign workers amid shortages

The Japanese government plans to lift restrictions on foreign nursing workers making home care visits to the elderly as soon as fiscal 2024, the labor ministry has told an expert panel.The plan comes as Japan attempts to expand the parameters in which foreign laborers can work amid an increasingly older population and shortages of working-age people. Some 40 percent of firms offering such services reported losses in fiscal 2022 as the demographic pressures mount.The alteration will allow at-home care visits by holders of specified skilled worker visas, technical interns and prospective cert…READ FULL ARTICLE