Language Test or Qualification Test
The Japanese Government made a test easier for Asians who want to be qualified in Japan for nursing jobs.
Formerly those Asians, mostly Indonesians officially invited by the Japanese authority, had to take an examination just as Japanese nursing students do. Question sheets were all written in Japanese with full of difficult Kanji expressions of medical terms. Though most of those Asian test-takers could read Kana expressions after a few-year studying in Japan, Kanji letters are extremely difficult. Even ordinary Japanese could not read correctly those special Kanji expressions and understand their medical meanings.
Nurses certificated in Indonesia, for example, are allowed to work in hospitals in Japan for a few years without official Japanese licenses of legitimate nurses. But they are requested to pass the national examination for nursing license during their allowed stay in Japan. Learning of the Japanese language is a heavy burden for them. So, only a small percentage of Asian nurses could pass it. (They looked like geniuses.) But others who failed twice or so in the examination had to go back to their mother countries. (The qualification test is conducted once a year.)
But, the Japanese authority has decided to add a Kana expression to every Kanji expression used in question paper. As Kana characters are a kind of alphabet, many Asians are expected to pass the qualification test somewhat easily.
Anyway this language issue is the toughest barrier against foreigners and foreign businesses who want to expand their scope of activities into Japan.
Indeed, everybody learns English in Japan for more than three years in schools after WWII, more than 99% of Japanese or more than 100 million Japanese have no chances to speak English with foreigners in their daily life at all.
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