### B. Promotion of the Acceptance of Highly-Skilled Foreign Nationals

Proactively work on effective publicity measures to encourage more highly-skilled professionals to use the points-based system for highly-skilled professionals (see chapter 3).

### C. Acceptance of Foreign Nationals in Fields in Urgent Need of Human Resources

Smooth and appropriate acceptance of foreign nationals in the construction sector, etc. through emergency time-limited measures in coordination with the related ministries and agencies.

## (2) Promotion of the Appropriate Acceptance of Foreign Students

In the future, in collaboration with the educational institutions, as well as thoroughly ensuring proper residence management, we will be continuing with our efforts for smooth and appropriate acceptance of foreign students and employment support in order to ensure that the employment of foreign students goes even more smoothly in Japan.

## ② Call for a National Debate on the Acceptance of Foreign Nationals in Light of the Declining Birthrate and Aging Population

The future acceptance of foreign nationals, including the acceptance of foreign nationals in areas not evaluated to be professional or technical fields, requires understanding of the systems and circumstances of other countries and proactively listening to the voice of the people as well as studies by the entire government, and the immigration control administration also intends to proactively participate in these studies.

## ③ Efforts Toward the Establishment of a New System of Technical Intern Training

## (1) Measures to Optimize the System of Technical Intern Training

Revisions will be carried out with regard to the supervising organizations and implementing organizations in the direction of performing a results assessment through such means as making the sitting of a skills evaluation exam mandatory on completing the technical intern training.

Moreover, in order to strengthen the auditing system of the supervising organizations vis-à-vis the implementing organizations, new measures will be taken such as requiring the implementation of outside directors or outside auditors. In addition, a new organization to operate and supervise the system will be established to complement the role of the government agencies, which will have a basis in laws and regulations, and a system will be built enabling the government to consistently perform rigorous guidance and supervision.

Further, with regard to human rights protection of the technical intern trainees, responses to acts of human rights infringement against the technical intern trainees will be reinforced such as through developing a system enabling the technical intern trainees to report misconduct by the implementing organizations or the supervising organizations, and the establishment of new penalty provisions vis-à-vis supervising organizations/implementing organizations which have committed acts of human rights infringement, etc.

Moreover, another aim is optimization at the stage of the dispatching countries, for example, making arrangements with the government (authorities) of the dispatching country in order to exclude inappropriate dispatching organizations.