{"id":58736,"date":"2026-07-10T11:57:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/58736\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T11:57:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:57:05","slug":"foreign-workers-feel-the-heat-as-japan-hardens-nationalist-stance-france-24-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/58736\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign workers feel the heat as Japan hardens nationalist stance \u2022 FRANCE 24 English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Foreign workers feel the heat as Japan hardens nationalist stance \u2022 FRANCE 24 English\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f9yfUtuyKUw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nForeign workers feel the heat as Japan hardens nationalist stance \u2022 FRANCE 24 English<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOn this week&#8217;s edition of Access Asia, we bring you a report from Japan, where visa fees have been increased for foreign nationals applying for permanent residency. The government is also considering introducing a language requirement. While Japan needs foreign workers to help offset an ageing population and a declining birth rate, the nationalist government has continued to tighten its immigration policies.<br \/>\n#Japan #immigration ##ForeignWorkers<\/p>\n<p>Read more about this story in our article: https:\/\/f24.my\/C2yF.y<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to France 24 now: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTen<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34 LIVE &#8211; Watch FRANCE 24 English 24\/7 here: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTliveEN<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0d Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: https:\/\/f24.my\/FBen<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/f24.my\/Xen<br \/>\nBluesky: https:\/\/f24.my\/BSen and Threads: https:\/\/f24.my\/THen<br \/>\nBrowse the news in pictures on Instagram: https:\/\/f24.my\/IGen<br \/>\nDiscover our TikTok videos: https:\/\/f24.my\/TKen<br \/>\nGet the latest top stories on Telegram: https:\/\/f24.my\/TGen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Foreign workers feel the heat as Japan hardens nationalist stance \u2022 FRANCE 24 English On this week&#8217;s edition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[473,35140,32384,37559,2295,2085,1288,13631,51340,22,23,20,21,395,12155,1468,51334,51335,51336,51337,51338,51339,51341,1994,22990,28556,51342,14091,26499],"class_list":["post-58736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france24","tag-analysis","tag-anti-immigration","tag-asia-news","tag-conservative-politics","tag-current-affairs","tag-documentary","tag-east-asia","tag-explainer","tag-foreign-workers-japan","tag-france-24","tag-france-24-english","tag-france24","tag-france24-english","tag-geopolitics","tag-immigration-policy","tag-japan","tag-japan-demographics","tag-japan-economy","tag-japan-immigration","tag-japanese-nationalism","tag-japanese-politics","tag-japanese-society","tag-labor-shortage-japan","tag-migration","tag-nationalism","tag-politics-explained","tag-population-decline","tag-social-issues","tag-xenophobia"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}