特定技能の外国人１６２１人　３カ月で７倍超―１９年末現在

　出入国在留管理庁は７日、新在留資格「特定技能」を取得して在留する外国人は、昨年１２月末現在１６２１人と発表した。昨年９月末（２１９人）の７・４倍で、昨年４月に創設された新制度が徐々に浸透しているとみられる。
　特定技能の対象の１４業種別にみると、多い順に飲食料品製造業５５７人、農業２９２人、産業機械製造業１９８人など。国・地域別ではベトナム９０１人、インドネシア１８９人、フィリピン１１１人などとなった。（2020/02/07-17:14）

The number of foreign workers in Japan with new visa status granted to people having certain job skills came to 1,621 as of the end of December 2019, up 7.4-fold from three months before, the Immigration Services Agency of Japan said Friday.
   The new visa status, covering 14 industries, was launched in April last year. Food and beverage manufacturers had the highest number of foreign workers with the new status, with 557, followed by the agriculture industry, with 292, and industrial machinery makers, with 198.
   By country or region, the number of workers from Vietnam was the highest, at 901, followed by those from Indonesia, at 189, and those from the Philippines, at 111.
   Applicants for the new visa status in principle have to complete about three years of technical training in Japan or pass both job skill tests conducted at each industry and a Japanese proficiency test.
   More than 90 pct of the current holders of the new status are those who completed technical training.