TOKYO -- Japanese health officials will soon open the doors wider for foreign health workers to provide in-home nursing care, Nikkei has learned, in a bid to ease the labor shortage in the field.
Specified skilled workers, technical trainees to receive the green light in April

An April rule change will lower the hurdles for non-Japanese health workers to provide in-home nursing care. (Photo by Nikkei)
TOKYO -- Japanese health officials will soon open the doors wider for foreign health workers to provide in-home nursing care, Nikkei has learned, in a bid to ease the labor shortage in the field.