Japan: law passed to facilitate labour immigration

On 14 June, the Japanese parliament adopted a law on development and employment, designed to remedy the serious skills shortage affecting the country. The aim of this law is to increase labour immigration. It provides for the training of unskilled foreign workers over three years to enable them to obtain ‘type one’ resident status, which allows them to work in Japan for up to five years. They will also be able to change jobs within their sector if they can demonstrate that they have worked in t