TOKYO -- Japan's parliament passed a bill early Saturday morning that will create a new foreign worker program to help address labor shortages, opening the country's doors to blue-collar laborers in a major policy shift.
Japan immigration
Japan enacts divisive foreign worker bill to ease labor shortage
New visa program aims to bring in 345,000 blue-color laborers over five years
Opposition lawmakers protested against the Upper House committee chairman's move to vote on the foreign worker bill early Saturday morning. (Photo by Shinya Sawai)
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