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Gov’t considers easing visa conditions for skilled foreign workers
The government has begun looking into easing conditions on resident visa status for skilled foreign workers such as engineers — but only if their Japanese is fluent enough, unnamed government sources were quoted by a Kyodo News report filed Monday.
The measure under consideration is applicable to foreigners who want to enter Japan to hold specialist or technical jobs, Kyodo News quoted the sources.
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While low-cost carriers have since long been successfully operating throughout the U.S., Europe, and southern Asia, Japan has seen very little of the low-price action.
A technology based lobby group in US, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) wants United States Congress to drastically raise the annual cap on H-1B visas and give permanent residency to foreign nationals who graduate from U.S. colleges.
Is that freakking true?!!