Some 60 pct of Japanese people are positive about a government plan to expand the intake of foreign workers by introducing new five-year resident status for them next April, the results of a recent Jiji Press survey suggested.
Some 60 pct of Japanese people are positive about a government plan to expand the intake of foreign workers by introducing new five-year resident status for them next April, the results of a recent Jiji Press survey suggested.
In the survey earlier this month, the government plan was backed by 60.8 pct of the respondents and opposed by 25.4 pct.
The idea of exempting highly skilled foreign workers from caps on the period of stay and allowing them to invite their families to Japan was supported by 79.
