Japan's senior-care providers seek more foreign trainees

Expanded program to bring over 300 workers to five big companies

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Japan faces a potential shortage of 380,000 nursing-care workers in fiscal 2025.

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.

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