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Under the Economic Partnership Agreements(EPA)with Indonesia and the Philippines, about 1,000 foreign care workers have entered Japan since 2008. They have started working in hospitals and nursing care facilities all over Japan,practicing intercultural care. This paper examines the phenomenon of intercultural care in Japan with a focus on the issues involving the EPA. It first gives an overview of the current state of intercultural care in Japan. Then it describes problems related to the EPA as a framework for accepting foreign care workers in Japan and discusses the issues involving language, culture,and communication in the field of intercultural care. |
