The planned restrictions on foreign entertainers, mostly affecting women from the Philippines, will be put in place during the first half of March, government officials said Sunday.
The government had wanted to make the move this month.
The government decided on the postponement to take ample time to publicize the restrictions throughout Japan's entertainment industry and for preparations by the Justice Ministry's Immigration Bureau, the officials said.
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