TOKYO -- Japan plans to conduct a survey on payments into the public pension and medical insurance systems by foreign residents, hoping to analyze the impact on those programs of the expanding population of non-citizens.
Japan immigration
Japan to survey foreigners' payments into pension, medical insurance
Government aims to study growing population's effect on social safety net
Roughly 3.4 million foreigners were living in Japan on a medium- to long-term basis as of the end of 2023. (Photo by Rie Ishii)
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