TOKYO -- The growing ranks of foreign workers coming into Japan thanks to more liberal immigration reforms have prompted businesses here to adopt wider roles in teaching the local language to new arrivals.
Human Academy, a group company of Tokyo-based staffing group Human Holdings, recently agreed to form a joint venture in the Philippines with Manila-based Magsaysay People Resources. Human Academy will dispatch instructors, as well as provide know-how and materials for teaching Japanese. The venture will teach the language to nurses, hotel staffers and other workers trained by Magsaysay.
