With the declining birthrate and aging population, Japan’s immigration policy is currently in a period of transition.
The news media clearly reflects this, and there is not a day that goes by without news articles related to residence and immigration being released.
<Trend of the recent news articles>
Recently, the following themes have been distributed, and many of them are mentioned in this blog.
- Abolition of the technical intern training system and establishment of “developmental employment”
- Discussion of specific industrial fields added to specified skilled worker
- Relaxation of acceptance criteria for “Entertainer” status of residence
- Start of operation of “Engineer Visa” system utilizing National Strategic Special Zones
- Establishment of “Special Permit to Reside” application system
- Granting the residence status of “long-term resident” to persons eligible for “complementary protection” equivalent to refugees
- Relaxation of fourth-generation Japanese residence status
- Start of acceptance of “digital nomads” under the status of residence “Specified Activities”
- and so on
<New feature in our homepage>
On the homepage of “Nishiyama Immigration Service“, we post links on the top page for news related to residence and immigration that are distributed daily from various news media, and on the news archive screen, you can search by tag (keyword).
We have now prepared a list screen of tags on the top page, which are displayed in font sizes according to their frequency, based on news articles from the past three months. This feature has been common for a long time and is called a “tag cloud.”
Clicking on a tag will take you to the archive screen where related news articles have been extracted. Please have fun to use this feature.
This post is available in Japanese.