Japan is planning a major shift in its stringent immigration policy that would accept foreign workers in substantially wider areas, including agriculture and nursing care services, it was learned Monday.
According to the Justice Ministry's draft of a new basic immigration policy, the government will allow foreigners to work in nursing care services and accept foreign trainees in such fields as agriculture and marine product processing.
The ministry plans to obtain approval from the Liberal Democratic Party as early as today, government sources said.
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