‘Japan to receive Nepali migrant workers’

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‘Japan to receive Nepali migrant workers’

December 26: The Government of Japan has reportedly decided to allow Nepali migrant workers in its labour market. Rastriya Samachar Samiti reported that Japan took such decision after a meeting between Minister for Foreign Affairs Pradip Kumar Gyawali and his Japanese counterpart some weeks ago.

“The government of Japan is accepting about 340,000 foreign workers in targeted industries over five years,” RSS quoted Japan’s English language business journal Nikkei Asian Review as saying.

Nikkei Asian Review, arguably the world’s largest financial newspaper, said that the Japanese government plans to establish one-stop facilities, tentatively named as Centers for Multicultural Information and Assistance, in about 100 locations across Japan.

“These centers will provide consultations on administrative procedures and everyday life in 11 languages -- Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Vietnamese, Thai, Portuguese, Indonesian, Nepalese and Tagalog -- using translation apps and other means," the online portal of Nikkei Asian Review mentions.

RSS, the state-run news agency of Nepal, however said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that no official information was received from the Japanese government to this end.

Likewise, Secretary at the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security Mahesh Prasad Dahal said that process to constitute a mechanism would be initiated to send Nepalis to Japan after a scheduled visit of a technical team from Japan to Nepal in January 2019, according to RSS.

 

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