Japan to ease financial burden of foreign trainees with new program

Plan will cap fees paid by workers to overseas recruiting agencies

Foreign Worker 2025-01-23

A foreign trainee works at a metal processing factory in Kanagawa prefecture, south of Tokyo. (Photo by Rie Ishii)

EUGENE LANG

TOKYO -- Japan will work to ease the financial burden of foreign nationals coming to work in the country under a new government employment program, Nikkei has learned.

The program, dubbed Employment for Skill Development, limits fees paid by foreign workers to recruitment agencies in their home countries to two months of their salary in Japan.

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