Foreign caregiving trainees to get financial aid to study Japanese

The labor ministry will launch a new system to financially aid foreign trainees in the field of caregiving in learning Japanese and acquiring technical knowledge amid growing demand for such foreign workers, ministry officials said Monday.Foreign trainees are expected to make up for a labor shortage in the field of caregiving in Japan, but their jobs require greater proficiency in communicating in Japanese than other business fields. To attract more foreign trainees to the country, the government aims to improve their environment for studying the language.The Ministry of Health, Labor and W…READ FULL ARTICLE