A government panel of experts is recommending that Japan create a mandatory integration program for foreign residents and collect data on real estate ownership by non-citizens, in a report submitted to ¡°immigration minister¡± Kimi Onoda on Wednesday.
The report was submitted by the panel¡¯s chair, Reiko Hayashi, the director-general of the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research.
The meeting between economic security minister Onoda ¡ª who is also ¡°minister in charge of a society of well-ordered and harmonious coexistence with foreign nationals¡± ¡ª and Hayashi took place as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi¡¯s administration moves to reset Japan¡¯s direction for policies related to foreign nationals, including by conducting better language programs and implementing new restrictions on real estate purchases on national and economic security grounds.
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