On October 25th, Ministry of Justice (MOJ) has released statistics of new immigrants for the first half, April – September, of fiscal year 2019. Excluding Temporary Visitor, Technical Intern Training (i), Student, Engineer / Specialist in Humanity / International Services, Official and Entertainment are top 5 statues, in total occupying 73%, approximately three fourth of […]
Labor market for young workers in Japan has become very tight especially for small medium enterprises (SMEs). Such companies have started looking more at world talents graduating from universities in Japan as another source of resources to address the hiring challenge. Japanese government, for its target of raising the current 30% up to 50% in […]
JASSO, Japan Student Services Organization, is well known among college students in Japan. JASSO offers two types of scholarship: scholarship loan and scholarship benefits. The former supports 1.3 million and the latter 2 million students approximately. These cover around 37% of student population in Japan: more than one out of three students are supported. JASSO’s […]
A new work visa type of Designated Activities has been added on May 30th 2019, which is intended for world talents graduating from an university in Japan. It is applied to a job-seeking non-Japanese student 1) graduating from an university in Japan with bachelor’s or master’s degree, and 2) passing JLPT N1 or equivalent. This […]