immigration

SOCIETY

Japan’s New Visa Rules Are Forcing Tokyo’s Immigrant-Run Restaurants to Close

The new capital requirement for the business manager visa is too high a hurdle for many legitimate, profitable, and law-abiding businesses.

INSIDER

[Insider] Shibuya, Burning: How Japan’s Right Exploits the Information Void to Foster Hate

A Japanese nationalist started a fire in Shibuya Crossing and then fled the scene. Japan's right wing blamed the attack on...foreigners?

JAPANESE LANGUAGE

MEXT to Nothing: Japan Struggles to Help Foreign Residents Learning Japanese

Many foreign residents in Japan want to learn Japanese. But reports show a majority feel they're not getting the support they need…

LIVING IN JAPAN

Immigrant Crime in Japan Is Dropping as Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Soars

Right-wingers in Japan claim that the country is becoming more unsafe due to immigrants. The data doesn't back that up.

LIVING IN JAPAN

Japan to Expand Entry Screening and Raise Visa Fees

Traveling and moving to Japan is about to get a lot more expensive, thanks to a proposed set of fee hikes.

LIVING IN JAPAN

Ibaraki Prefecture to Pay Residents a Bounty for Reporting Illegal Foreign Workers

The bounty-style reporting scheme is unprecedented at the prefectural level - and it's drawing some obvious criticisms.

SOCIETY

Why Foreign Workers Have Become Essential to Japan’s Elderly Care System

With a dwindling workforce, Japan is increasingly dependent on foreign workers to care for its rapidly aging population.

SEX & NIGHTLIFE

As Overseas Sex Work From Japan Booms, Solo Female Travelers Face Border Trouble

More Japanese women are going overseas for prostitution. That's leading to women outside the industry being turned back at the border.