{"id":15129,"date":"2018-08-27T08:21:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T18:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=15129"},"modified":"2018-08-29T08:33:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T18:33:36","slug":"jt-kyodo-immigration-bureau-to-be-upgraded-to-immigration-agency-april-2019-baby-steps-towards-immigration-ministry-with-actual-immigration-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=15129","title":{"rendered":"JT\/Kyodo: Immigration Bureau to be upgraded to Immigration Agency April 2019. Baby steps towards Immigration Ministry with actual immigration policy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. The GOJ is starting to take NJ influx more seriously now, with a ministerial upgrade (from Bureau to Agency). When it becomes a full-fledged Ministry that explicitly says “Immigration” in it (as in, Imin-Shou<\/em>), not a “Bureau\/Agency for Processing National Influx” (which is what the\u00a0Nyuukoku Kanri Kyoku<\/em> literally is), with an actual Immigration Policy, then Debito.org will be a bit more cheery. \u00a0That raises hope that the GOJ will someday actually want NJ to stay and become productive members of society and citizens, not revolving-door visa recipients<\/a>. \u00a0But baby steps for now. What say Debito.org Readers about this? Dr. Debito Arudou<\/p>\n

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\nJapan will overhaul Immigration Bureau to create agency for expected surge of blue-collar workers under new status<\/strong>
\nBY SAKURA MURAKAMI. THE JAPAN TIMES\/KYODO, AUG 28, 2018<\/strong>
\nFull article at https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2018\/08\/28\/national\/politics-diplomacy\/japan-set-immigration-agency-cope-influx-blue-collar-ranks-abroad-new-status\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The Justice Ministry will upgrade its Immigration Bureau to an agency from April to deal with an anticipated influx of foreign workers, Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa said at a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

With the government seeking to accept more foreign workers from April and introducing a new status of residence amid a serious labor crunch across industries, the Justice Ministry will be conducting \u201ca fundamental revision of the Immigration Bureau\u201d and is currently finalizing the establishment of a new agency that will oversee immigration, Kamikawa said. […]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Media has reported that the upgrade of the bureau will see an increase of over 500 ministry staff and immigration officers, with the latter expected to help the country boost checks for inbound tourists ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Reports have also said that the ministry will be requesting about \u00a53 billion within their fiscal 2019 budget for outlays related to the overhaul. […]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The upgrade of the Immigration Bureau comes as Japan, facing a declining population and shrinking workforce, plans to open the door to blue-collar laborers from abroad, in addition to the currently accepted highly skilled foreigners, by introducing a new resident status.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The new system will allow foreign nationals who are proficient speakers of Japanese to work in agriculture, construction, hospitality, nursing and shipbuilding, and may be expanded to other sectors<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The government has so far confirmed that foreign workers will not be able to bring family members under the new residency status, and that their stay will be limited to five years.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

According to figures provided by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, the number of registered foreign workers in the nation hit a record high of 1.28 million in October 2017 \u2014 a twofold increase from the 486,398 foreign nationals seen in 2008.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

On the other hand, the number of people in Japan aged between 15 to 64 who are capable of working decreased from 86.99 million in 1997 to 76.65 million in 2016, according to data submitted to the Council of Economic Fiscal Policy in February.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Information from Kyodo News added. Full article at https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2018\/08\/28\/national\/politics-diplomacy\/japan-set-immigration-agency-cope-influx-blue-collar-ranks-abroad-new-status\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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JT: The Justice Ministry will upgrade its Immigration Bureau to an agency from April to deal with an anticipated influx of foreign workers, Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa said at a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday. With the government seeking to accept more foreign workers from April and introducing a new status of residence amid a serious labor crunch across industries, the Justice Ministry will be conducting \u201ca fundamental revision of the Immigration Bureau\u201d and is currently finalizing the establishment of a new agency that will oversee immigration, Kamikawa said. […]<\/p>\n

COMMENT: The GOJ is starting to take NJ influx more seriously now, with a ministerial upgrade (from Bureau to Agency). When it becomes a full-fledged Ministry that explicitly says “Immigration” in it (as in, Imin-Shou), not a “Bureau\/Agency for Processing National Influx” (which is what the Nyuukoku Kanri Kyoku literally is), with an actual Immigration Policy, then Debito.org will be a bit more cheery. \u00a0That raises hope that someday the GOJ will actually want NJ to stay and become productive members of society and citizens, not revolving-door visa recipients. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,12,4,16,55,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-news","category-immigration-assimilation","category-japanese-government","category-labor-issues","category-tourism","category-unsustainable-japanese-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15131,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15129\/revisions\/15131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}