ABOUT 200 Indonesian nurses and caregivers arrived in Japan on Thursday as Asia's largest economy gradually opens up to foreign workers to try to ward off future labour shortages.
The arrival of the foreign nurses in the country, which tightly controls immigration, comes as this greying nation struggles to support a growing mass of pensioners, even as Japanese have fewer children.
The nurses are the first batch of full-time health workers accepted under a free trade pact between Japan and Indonesia that took effect on July 1.
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