Abstract
The chapters in this book have highlighted the intersection between health-caregiving to the elderly in Japan, and international labor migration to Japan. This concluding chapter serves two purposes: First, it presents the lessons learned from the case study for both these topics, and, moreover, presents what general knowledge could be acquired regarding the process of policy-making in Japan. Second, this chapter presents and discusses three new initiatives that have emerged from within the administration of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe over the past months, and are designed to pose alternative avenues for health-caregiver migration to Japan. They include recruiting foreign workers who have been trained in domestic institutions; expanding the much-criticized program of recruiting international trainees to Japan to encompass the health care sector; and establishing special economic zones with to some degree liberalized hiring policies for foreign workers.
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