The government is considering creating programs teaching\u00a0Japanese language, culture and social rules to foreign nationals and making attendance of the programs a factor in residency screenings, sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The government plans to begin the programs on a trial basis in fiscal 2028, the sources said.<\/p>\n
This comes in response to calls from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party for measures to address problems between Japanese and foreign residents.<\/p>\n
The programs will be tailored to participants’ home countries and regions as well as their life stages, according to the sources.<\/p>\n
The government will consider allowing foreign nationals\u00a0to take the programs before coming to Japan, as well as the possibility of making children’s attendance at\u00a0school a factor in their parents’ residency screenings\u00a0and making participation in the programs a requirement for permanent residency, the sources said.<\/p>\n
Outlines of the study programs will be drawn up within fiscal 2027, and the government will develop a system to track\u00a0participation.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Kimi Onoda, minister in charge of harmonious coexistence with foreign nationals, reported on the progress made in developing the\u00a0envisaged programs to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.<\/p>\n
In a post\u00a0on X,\u00a0Takaichi said,\u00a0“I aim to establish an orderly inclusive society by taking resolute actions against problematic behavior, in order to protect foreigners who abide by laws.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government is considering creating programs teaching\u00a0Japanese language, culture and social rules to foreign nationals and making attendance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1578,8,5763,3471,358],"class_list":{"0":"post-13803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-immigration","9":"tag-japan","10":"tag-kimi-onoda","11":"tag-language","12":"tag-sanae-takaichi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}