Japan eyes new foreign worker program but challenges abound

The envisaged creation of a new visa program to accept foreign workers may help ease Japan's serious labor crunch that looks set to get worse in coming years amid the rapid aging of its society.For a country known for keeping a firm grip on immigration, however, the challenges are manifold, ranging from social security to education, to prevent incoming foreign workers from being left out.(A Taiwanese clerk attending to a guest at a hotel in Tokyo in 2017)The program, a major shift from Japan's traditional policy of accepting highly skilled professionals in principle, comes in response to gr…READ FULL ARTICLE