On July 15, the Supreme Court of Japan ruled that it is legal for property owners to demand supplemental fees when tenants renew their rental agreements. The ruling was made in conjunction with three lawsuits that tenants had brought against their landlords claiming that koshinryō should be considered invalid in accordance with the Consumer Contracts Law.
“Many foreigners returned to their countries after the disaster and have not returned to Japan as they are concerned about the nuclear crisis” at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, an official in the ministry’s Immigration Bureau said.
According to the Immigration Bureau, the Ministry of Justice and immigration lawyers, the new law will bring about a few major changes.
The U.S. State Department said in its annual Trafficking in Persons Report that some conditions faced […]
"As the length of Japanese language training has been increased from six months at the beginning, and now to nine months, and to 12 months by next year, we all hope more candidates can pass the local examinations," Indonesian Minister of Manpower and Transmigration Muhaimin Iskandar said.
Men born in the latter half of the 1970s tend to be mired in nonregular jobs […]
Learn your rights to Shakai Hoken. Come to Osaka Keizai Hohka Daigaku Tokyo Azabudai Seminar House on Sunday, July 31, 2:00pm to 5:00pm.
Renown American peace activist Cindy Sheehan will give free training on how to make change. Contact […]
"Unless radical policies are implemented, it is simply a matter of time before manufacturing, consumption, tax receipts, fiscal health, the pension and welfare system, and the very ability of people to make a living will all collapse under the inexorable dual pressures of rapid ageing and rapid declines in the young working population."
Each of the tax offices are thought to have kept such files on more than 1,000 foreign taxpayers, but the number of those identified by nationality or alien registration number is not known.