[Reuters, Tokyo, 9th]-Secretary of Immigration and Immigration Administration, Secretary of the Ministry of Justice, Seiko Sasaki met in Tokyo on the 9th, and “slightly looked at the situation” about the status of use of the “special skills” system of residence established in April However, he said, “There are so many people who are interested in it, and I feel that it is wide.”
The specific skills system is a system established to cope with labor shortages and to accept new foreign workers. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has said that he will not take immigration policy, has sought to accept full-time foreign workers for the first time.
According to Secretary Sasaki, by the end of August, 1986 registrations were made for “registration support organizations” that support foreign workers working with specific skills by introducing them to companies.
119 people were allowed to come to Japan under the new system, including those who had stayed in Japan for technical training in the past, and 86 were already allowed to change their status of residence in Japan. In addition, because technical intern trainees are in the process of moving to the new system, 684 cases were granted resident status for specific activities.
He said at a conference of the Japan Correspondent Correspondent Association that “we expect to see more and more applications in the future, and we will conduct an appropriate and prompt examination”.
On the other hand, at the conference, several questions were raised regarding the lack of medical systems in the immigration detention facilities. In immigration detention facilities, Nigerian men who were detained died in Nagasaki Prefecture in June, and hunger strikes were held to protest long-term detention at a facility in Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture. Yes.
Secretary Sasaki acknowledged that the current state of camp medical care was not sufficient and replied, "I need to make further improvements."
Specifically, he said it would be difficult to secure full-time doctors at the facility, and he said he would like to make efforts to strengthen the visiting posture of outside doctors and to develop accepting hospitals.
(Aya Miyazaki)