Japan is one of the hardest countries to get a visa. Here in the Philippines, people get nursing degrees to work overseas... but even though Japan has an aging population, it is almost impossible to get a job as a caretaker or factory worker...
when they needed factory workers a decade ago, they recruited ethnic Japanese from South america to work.
and instead of recruiting Filipino caregivers for the elderly, they are devising robots to do the work.
We live in a small town in the Kumamoto countryside and my wife works with a Filipino nurse .