selected ASEAN countries (Thailand and Philippine) to Japan. The research aims at learning some general characteristics of the … main question is; how do Malaysian and selected ASEAN countries migrants enter to work in Japan both legally and illegally … answer these questions, The researcher have to do some field research both in Japan as a host country and in Malaysia and …

Hitherto Japan’s migration policy in a nutshell read “exclusively highly skilled migration” and “exclusively temporary … migration.” Faced with the enormous speed of Japan’s demographic change, however, the government has started to open up the … national labor market to foreign workers. Under bilateral Economic Partnership Agreements that Japan tied with the Philippines …

Matters of border control in twenty-first-century Japan interact with current social issues involving demography, the … labour market and economic relationships with other countries in the region. Japan faces a rapidly ageing population, the … focuses on 'the management of borders' and the 'management of bodies' in contemporary Japan. (J Asia Pac Econ/GIGA) …