Japan’s decision in 2008 to invite nurses and caregivers from Indonesia and the Philippines to fill gaping holes in its health service was hailed as proof of a new spirit of openness in a country that has traditionally shunned large numbers of skilled workers from abroad.
…TOKYO, Japan It was supposed to be the perfect solution to a seemingly intractable problem: how to care for the sick and elderly in a country suffering from a declining, and quickly graying, population.Japan s decision in 2008 to invite nurses and caregivers from Indonesia and the Philippines to fill gaping holes in its health service was hailed as proof of a new spirit of openness in a country that has traditionally shunned large numbers of skilled workers from abroad.
But three years after the first batch of trainees arrived from Southeast Asia, the scheme, for all its good intentions, is in tatters.
Of the 254 Indonesian and Filipino health workers who took the first round of Japanese-language nursing examinations this year, just three were successful.
Yet in hospitals and care facilities across Japan, the need for an influx of new staff is clear. More than one-fifth of Japan s population is over 65, and people in that age group will account for more than 40 percent of the total population by…
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