17/03/2025
🚀【Latest 2025 Update】Key Changes in the Specified Skilled Worker (SSW) Program!
Big changes are coming to Japan’s Specified Skilled Worker (SSW) program in 2025!
Here are the two main updates 👇
✅ Expanded job scope (Caregiving, Manufacturing, Food Service)
✅ Relaxation of interview requirements (from 3 times/year → 1 time/year)
Let’s break it down!
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🔹 ① Expanded Job Scope in Caregiving, Manufacturing, and Food Service
🏥 Caregiving Sector
✅ Home-visit caregiving is now allowed!
Previously, caregiving SSWs could only work in facilities. With this update, they can now provide meal assistance, bathing assistance, and toileting support at clients' homes.
⚠ Requirements:
✔ Completion of the Care Worker Introductory Training
✔ At least one year of work experience in a caregiving institution
🏭 Manufacturing Sector
✅ More job opportunities!
✔ Automobile parts manufacturing & assembly
✔ Electronics assembly & inspection
✔ Welding, painting, and metal processing
Additionally, joining a newly established private organization will now be mandatory for companies hiring SSWs to ensure proper working conditions.
🍽 Food Service Sector
✅ SSWs can now work in restaurants inside hotels and inns!
Previously, SSWs could not work in hotels or inns with an adult entertainment business license under the Food Service Sector. However, this restriction has now been lifted.
⚠ Note:
❌ SSWs still cannot work in snack bars, hostess bars, or other nightlife establishments under the Adult Entertainment Business Law.
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🔹 ② Relaxation of Interview Requirements
To reduce the burden on companies, the mandatory interviews with SSW employees have been reduced from three times a year to once a year.
📌 Purpose:
✔ Checking working conditions
✔ Providing consultation opportunities
✔ Ensuring proper employment management
In the same way, the periodic notification was also changed from three times a year to once a year.
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📝 Summary
These new updates create more job opportunities for SSWs while reducing the administrative burden on companies.
💡 Now is the perfect time to take advantage of the revised SSW program!
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👉 More details on the Immigration Services Agency of Japan’s official website
