{"id":526095,"date":"2026-04-12T01:14:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T01:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/526095\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T01:14:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T01:14:19","slug":"japans-sompo-care-to-recruit-indian-caregivers-for-rival-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/526095\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Sompo Care to recruit Indian caregivers for rival firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/japan-immigration\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Japan immigration<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Nursing company to acquire 20% stake in Winz Plus to help fill labor-starved market<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/0.jpeg\" alt=\"20260409N Care workers\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Caregivers from India\u00a0train\u00a0in Moriya, Ibaraki prefecture, in Japan. (Photo by Tatsuya Ozaki)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japanese nursing care provider Sompo Care plans to acquire a 20% interest in a recruitment agency specializing in foreign nationals, putting it in a position to staff competitors with care workers from India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan immigration Nursing company to acquire 20% stake in Winz Plus to help fill labor-starved market Caregivers from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[15097,119946,5668,102,2960,6693,47045,54616,182529,182528,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-526095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-care","9":"tag-caregivers","10":"tag-firms","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-healthcare","13":"tag-indian","14":"tag-japans","15":"tag-recruit","16":"tag-rival","17":"tag-sompo","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}