{"id":490,"date":"2025-06-11T18:03:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/eased-language-requirement-proposed-for-non-japanese-bus-and-taxi-drivers\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T18:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:03:22","slug":"eased-language-requirement-proposed-for-non-japanese-bus-and-taxi-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/eased-language-requirement-proposed-for-non-japanese-bus-and-taxi-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Eased language requirement proposed for non-Japanese bus and taxi drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The government, at an expert panel meeting on Wednesday, proposed easing the Japanese language proficiency requirement for non-Japanese drivers working in the country, aiming to address the serious labor shortages in the bus and taxi industry.<\/p>\n<p>The panel met at the Justice Ministry to discuss the country&rsquo;s foreign worker programs.<\/p>\n<p>Japan accepts foreign bus and taxi drivers under the Type 1 category of its residency status system for foreign nationals with certain skill levels. With Type 1 status, they are allowed to work in Japan for up to five years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Eased language requirement proposed for non-Japanese bus and taxi drivers<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government, at an expert panel meeting on Wednesday, proposed easing the Japanese language proficiency requirement for non-Japanese drivers working in the country, aiming to address the serious labor shortages in the bus and taxi industry. The panel met at the Justice Ministry to discuss the country&rsquo;s foreign worker programs. Japan accepts foreign bus and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/eased-language-requirement-proposed-for-non-japanese-bus-and-taxi-drivers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Eased language requirement proposed for non-Japanese bus and taxi drivers&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}