The Japanese government has increased the residency requirement for foreign nationals seeking citizenship from five to ten consecutive years, as part of efforts to tighten the naturalisation process. The Justice Ministry announced that the new rule, which takes effect from April 1, also introduces stricter documentation requirements for applicants. As reported by the Economic Times…
The Japanese government has clarified that its new “JICA Africa Hometown” initiative does not include granting Nigerians or other Africans special visas or immigration privileges. In a statement issued on Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan said reports suggesting that Nigerians moving to Kisarazu city would enjoy a new visa category were “contrary…
US President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Japanese goods are a “national crisis”, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Friday ahead of cross-party talks on mitigating the impact on the heavily export-dependent economy. Japanese firms are the biggest investors into the United States but Trump on Thursday announced a hefty 24 percent levy on imports from the…
Trains and flights have been cancelled in Japan as one of the strongest typhoons to hit the country in decades drenches cities in its path. At least six people have been killed and more than 100 injured after Typhoon Shanshan made landfall in the south-western Japan on Thursday. Now downgraded to a tropical storm, Shanshan…
Hampered by bad weather and damaged roads, Japanese rescuers searched Friday for 222 people still missing four days after a devastating earthquake as the death toll approached 100. Two elderly women were pulled from the rubble on Thursday, but hopes of finding other survivors after the 7.5 magnitude quake on New Year’s Day were fading…
A US Osprey military aircraft with eight crew on board crashed on Wednesday off the coast of Japan, the coastguard said. “We received information that the US military’s Osprey crashed off Yakushima Island,” a spokeswoman told the newsmen. “We were also notified that there were eight crew members on board,” she added. “There is no…