What are the requirements for Japanese skilled immigrants?

65438128 October, the Japanese government began to discuss relaxing the residence conditions for foreigners, including foreigners such as engineers who want to engage in professional and technical work in Japan. If they have certain Japanese skills, they can shorten the required years of practical work experience accordingly. In addition to further opening the door to foreign workers, this move also aims to encourage foreigners to learn Japanese.

According to the Immigration Refugee Law, foreigners who can work in Japan for a long time have different residence qualifications according to the type of work, except Japanese spouses and Japanese second-and third-class people who are not restricted by the type of work. For example, engineers belong to "technical visas", teachers of professional trade and foreign language schools and fashion designers belong to "humanistic knowledge and international business visas", and precious metal processing technicians and pilots belong to "skill visas". The Immigration Bureau issues visas according to these categories respectively.

In addition, as a necessary condition for issuing visas, "technical visas" require applicants to have a bachelor's degree or above or 10 years of practical work experience, while "skill visas" mostly require 10 years of work experience.

The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Justice have proposed a plan to relax the restrictions, that is, for foreigners with certain Japanese reading and writing skills, the required work experience can be shortened from "10 years" to "5 years". As a standard for judging Japanese proficiency, it is planned to refer to the "Japanese Proficiency Test" implemented by the International Exchange Foundation.

Although some people worry that the relaxation of conditions may lead to the "quality decline" of the labor force, if your Japanese ability is high, it will be convenient to study in Japan.

Since 1999, although the Japanese government is still cautious about accepting pure workers, it has decided to actively accept workers in professional and technical fields through a cabinet resolution. At the end of 2006, while regulating the employment situation of foreigners, the director-level meeting of relevant government departments put forward the idea of "considering Japanese proficiency when issuing visas".

It is reported that the Japan Foundation for International Exchange conducts a "Japanese proficiency test" for foreigners whose mother tongue is not Japanese every year. In 2006, 440,000 people from 46 countries and regions in Japan and abroad took the exam, and 200,000 people passed the exam according to the difficulty from/kloc-0 to 4 * *. According to the survey of the Foundation for International Exchange, there are as many as 2.98 million Japanese learners overseas. On June+10/October 15, 65438, Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Kōmura put forward the policy of "taking Japanese as an important condition for foreigners' long-term residence", and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Justice began specific discussions on this.