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WASHINGTON – The government is considering increasing the number of foreign engineers and researchers accepted into the country by units of 100,000, according to Yasutoshi Nishimura, senior vice minister at the Cabinet Office.

Fast Retailing Co., the operator of the Uniqlo clothing chain, announced bold plans to move toward a uniform pay scale that standardizes salaries between its Japanese and foreign employees. The company hopes the move will help it to attract and keep foreign talent as it aims for rapid global expansion.

Last month, a Chinese trainee went on a stabbing rampage at a Hiroshima Prefecture seafood company where he worked, killing the president and an employee and wounding six others.

Last month, a Chinese trainee went on a stabbing rampage at a Hiroshima Prefecture seafood company where he worked, killing the president and an employee and wounding six others.

The health ministry said Monday that 30 nurse candidates from the Philippines and Indonesia passed the qualification test in February needed to be nurses in Japan.

A policy initiative designed to encourage highly skilled foreign professionals to come and stay in Japan is not working out as the Justice Ministry had envisioned.

A record 2,545 foreigners applied for refugee status in Japan in 2012, the Justice Ministry’s Immigration Bureau said Tuesday.

The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has decided that from April foreign nursing care trainees from Indonesia and the Philippines will be regarded as regular employees whose wages can be paid through the nursing care insurance system, it has been learned.