See also:
Japan loosens permanent residency rules to keep highly skilled foreign workers and lure global talent Independent, 7 Mar 2017.
Points-based Preferential Immigration Treatment for Highly-Skilled Foreign Professionals Immigration Bureau of Japan.
Japan immigration policy to focus on highly skilled foreign workers, Inquirer, 21 Feb 2017
How Japan needs to change to welcome immigrants This article argues that Although the government has taken positive steps in relation to highly skilled migrants, the country has to do more to accept foreigners (especially unskilled workers) as people who want to stay in japan not just as temporary migrants workers. Japan Times, 5 Sep 2017.
Will Japan’s points-based immigration system shake up HRM (Human Resources Management) practices? Global Risk Insights, 3 Aug 2017
Japan urged to welcome more skilled migrants Japan's restrictive immigration system would be dramatically expanded. Under the proposal of the Japan Forum on International Relations, Japan would adopt a skills-based migration system and put in place social integration policies to prevent the kind of tensions seen in Europe over immigration. The Australian, 26 Nov 2010.