Politics · Japan · 1 hr ago
Japan plans to resume visas for foreign meal-service workers
Japan plans to resume accepting foreign workers for meal-service jobs at some facilities.
The workers would provide meals in settings connected with medical and nursing care.
The plan concerns visas for foreign meal-service workers.
The available information does not specify which facilities or how many workers could be accepted.
The government aims to adopt the plan at a Cabinet meeting in December.
Until then, the proposal remains a plan rather than an adopted measure.
Japan plans to resume accepting foreign workers for meal services at some facilities.
The reported roles include meal-service work at medical and nursing facilities.
The government aims to adopt the plan at a Cabinet meeting in December.
The reports were published on October 19, 2026.
- Who
- Japan’s government plans to accept foreign workers for meal services.
- What
- It plans to resume accepting foreign workers for meal-service jobs at some facilities.
- When
- The government aims to adopt the plan in December; a resumption date is not stated.
- Where
- Japan, at some facilities.
- Why
- Not stated.
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Reports said Japan plans to resume accepting foreign workers for meal services at some facilities.
The government aims to adopt the plan at a Cabinet meeting.
- Country
- Japan
- Workers
- Foreign workers
- Jobs
- Meal services
- Facilities
- Some facilities, including medical and nursing facilities
- Planned Cabinet meeting
- December