{"id":948261,"date":"2026-11-01T02:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T02:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/948261\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T02:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T02:26:17","slug":"japans-foreign-caregivers-face-exam-hurdle-as-grace-period-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/948261\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s foreign caregivers face exam hurdle as grace period ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/health-care\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Health Care<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">With industry&#8217;s labor crunch worsening, government looks to create learning app<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/6.jpeg\" alt=\"20261026N nursing care training\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Foreign nationals accounted for nearly 60% of the roughly 8,000 students who entered Japan&#8217;s caregiver\u00a0training schools in fiscal 2025.\u00a0(Photo by Kosaku Mimura)<\/p>\n<p>MAYUNE HOTTA<\/p>\n<p>October 31, 2026 16:01 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japan plans to bolster support for foreigners seeking care worker certification by devising a test-preparation app, as a pass rate in the low 30% range for a national exam and the approaching end of a grace period spell trouble for an already labor-starved sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health Care With industry&#8217;s labor crunch worsening, government looks to create learning app Foreign nationals accounted for nearly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,171940,141272,96167,10680,35430,179476,137,500,217205,38117,119680],"class_list":["post-948261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-caregivers","tag-ends","tag-exam","tag-face","tag-foreign","tag-grace","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-hurdle","tag-japans","tag-period"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}