TOKYO, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) — The Japanese authorities introduced Friday that it’ll set up a brand new, simplified monitor for granting particular visas to high-income earners and graduates of high-ranking international universities as the worldwide race for proficient staff intensifies.
The new technique for extremely expert professionals, to be carried out in April following a public remark course of, would come with international researchers and engineers with an annual earnings of not less than 20 million yen (148,000 U.S. {dollars}), and a grasp’s diploma or greater than 10 years of labor expertise.
The authorities additionally determined to make it simpler for “young people with high potential” to hunt jobs in Japan.
A foreigner who has graduated from a college ranked within the prime 100 in two world rating lists designated by the Immigration Services Agency of Japan throughout the final 5 years and have not less than 200,000 yen (1,480 U.S. {dollars}) upon arrival in Japan will probably be granted a “designated activities” visa that can allow her or him to remain for as much as two years for the aim of job in search of.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno mentioned that the brand new system “would recognize expanded preferential treatment to those with top-level abilities.”