TOKYO -- Five major private-sector nursing-care providers including Gakken group and Tsukui will take in a total of more than 300 trainees from outside the country when Japan broadens an on-the-job training program for foreigners this year.
Senior-care workers from abroad previously came only via economic partnership agreements with Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. Just 2,777 people participated in these programs over nearly nine years through October 2016.
