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Japan is preparing to add four new fields to its “specified skilled worker” visa to address labor shortages in especially hard-hit industries, government sources said.
In what it said was a “one-time” move, the government granted special residency to scores of foreign families with children who were born, raised and educated in Japan but had faced eventual deportation.
Despite stringent protests from opposition lawmakers, an Upper House committee passed a controversial bill aimed at speeding the deportation of foreign nationals illegally staying in Japan, paving the way for its enactment as early as June 9.