About 36% of institutions that may be responsible for teaching Japanese to foreign workers said they had no firm prospect of securing teachers, according to a government survey ahead of the launch of the training-employment system in April 2027.
The system, known in Japanese as 育成就労 (ikusei shūrō), replaces the technical intern program and is meant to bring foreign workers into Japan for training and work over a set period. The survey covered institutions that could take on the Japanese-language teaching those workers will need.
The finding leaves a gap between the planned expansion of labor migration and the teaching capacity meant to support it. The survey did not give a breakdown of the institutions involved, and the source does not say how many were surveyed or what kind of bodies they are.