Thursday February 16, 2012

It's outrageous that highly motivated, highly capable nurses will be sent back to their home countries just because they are foreigners. It'd also be a great loss to the hospital.

Misako Takeuchi, senior nursing officer at the hospital, criticizing the government’s policy that requires foreign nurses, who came to Japan for the purpose of study, to return home after seven years of work. (Yomiuri Shimbun)

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