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Even a conservative model of a student's monthly income and costs yields savings of about BDT 1.8 million a year — many times what a TITP or SSW worker sends. Yet the student pathway has no place in the government's manpower planning.","keywords":["Bangladeshi students in Japan","remittance","Ministry of Justice statistics","student visa","TITP","SSW"]},{"@type":"ScholarlyArticle","headline":"55,000 students in five years: the 2026–2030 roadmap","url":"https://nagamatsufaruk.com/en/research/vision-55000-students-2030","datePublished":"2025-05-13","dateModified":"2026-08-29","abstract":"Japan has raised its international-student target from 300,000 to 400,000. With AJLIB and BSSAJ, the plan grows intake 10% a year from 2026 across four semesters to a total of 55,000 — backed by a network of JASSO-approved schools, quality improvement, and an international education fair with the Embassy.","keywords":["Bangladesh Japan students plan","55000 students","AJLIB","BSSAJ","JASSO","education fair"]},{"@type":"ScholarlyArticle","headline":"An SSW pathway for students refused a COE: 8,200+ skilled workers in five years","url":"https://nagamatsufaruk.com/en/research/coe-rejection-to-ssw-pathway","datePublished":"2025-05-13","dateModified":"2026-08-29","abstract":"Each semester 15–20% of applicants are refused a Certificate of Eligibility; after a second refusal most give up. The proposal: route N4 certificate-holders to the Specified Skilled Worker visa and encourage the rest to complete N4. At 25% annual growth that is 8,206 workers in 2026–2030.","keywords":["Certificate of Eligibility rejection","Specified Skilled Worker","SSW Bangladesh","JLPT N4","skilled migration Japan"]},{"@type":"ScholarlyArticle","headline":"Language-test capacity and equal recognition of certificates","url":"https://nagamatsufaruk.com/en/research/language-test-capacity","datePublished":"2025-05-13","dateModified":"2026-08-29","abstract":"The JLPT is held twice a year with 6,000–7,000 seats that sell out in two or three days — 20% of students cannot sit at all. JFT-Basic seats vanish within hours. Japan recognises ten tests, yet in Bangladesh a visa is in practice hard to obtain on any certificate other than the JLPT — while elsewhere any one recognised certificate suffices.","keywords":["JLPT seats Bangladesh","JFT-Basic","JPT","NAT-TEST","Japanese language test capacity","student visa Bangladesh"]},{"@type":"ScholarlyArticle","headline":"Twenty-eight hours a week and the cost of living: a question of student sustainability","url":"https://nagamatsufaruk.com/en/research/student-work-limit-sustainability","datePublished":"2026-03-01","dateModified":"2026-08-29","abstract":"Foreign students in Japan may work 28 hours a week, but in urban areas rent, food, utilities, transport and insurance have risen beyond what lawful income can cover. BSSAJ's letter is not a demand for more work — it asks for policy-level dialogue in the name of dignity, legal compliance and a sustainable student life.","keywords":["28 hour work limit Japan students","international student cost of living Japan","BSSAJ MOFA letter","student documentation Japan visa"]},{"@type":"ScholarlyArticle","headline":"‘Ikusei Shuro’ replaces TITP: what Bangladesh must have ready before 2027","url":"https://nagamatsufaruk.com/en/research/ikusei-shuro-what-bangladesh-must-prepare","datePublished":"2026-08-29","dateModified":"2026-08-29","abstract":"In June 2024 Japan's Diet abolished the thirty-year-old Technical Intern Training Program (TITP) and legislated ‘Ikusei Shuro’ (育成就労, Employment for Skill Development), to start by 2027. The new system must raise a worker to SSW(i) level within three years, allows job changes under conditions, and requires a minimum level of Japanese before departure. Bangladesh's training, language and sending arrangements need to be rebuilt around that template now.","keywords":["育成就労","Ikusei Shuro","Employment for Skill Development","TITP abolition","Bangladesh sending organisations","SSW pathway"]},{"@type":"ScholarlyArticle","headline":"The 820,000 SSW ceiling and sixteen fields: where Bangladesh stands","url":"https://nagamatsufaruk.com/en/research/ssw-820000-cap-bangladesh-position","datePublished":"2026-08-29","dateModified":"2026-08-29","abstract":"On 29 March 2024 Japan's Cabinet set the Specified Skilled Worker (SSW(i)) acceptance ceiling for FY2024–2028 at 820,000 — more than double the previous five-year figure of 345,150 — and added road transport, railways, forestry and timber, bringing the fields to sixteen. Bangladesh signed the SSW memorandum of cooperation back in 2019, yet its share remains small next to Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines or Myanmar. Both the causes and the remedies are measurable.","keywords":["Specified Skilled Worker","SSW 820000","16 fields","Bangladesh Japan MoC 2019","JFT-Basic","skills test Bangladesh"]},{"@type":"ScholarlyArticle","headline":"Japan's 400,000-student target and the new accredited-school law: what Bangladesh should do","url":"https://nagamatsufaruk.com/en/research/japan-400000-students-accredited-schools","datePublished":"2026-08-29","dateModified":"2026-08-29","abstract":"In 2023 the Japanese government set a target of 400,000 international students by 2033; in May 2024 the number reached a record 336,708. At the same time, under the Act on the Accreditation of Japanese Language Education Institutions in force since 1 April 2024, only government-accredited (認定) schools will be able to enrol students on student visas by 2029. The opportunity for Bangladesh is large — on condition of school selection and student quality.","keywords":["400000 international students Japan 2033","JASSO 336708","認定日本語教育機関","accredited Japanese language schools","Bangladeshi students Japan","JASSO approved schools"]},{"@type":"ScholarlyArticle","headline":"Ready before departure: a national pre-departure standard for Bangladeshi students","url":"https://nagamatsufaruk.com/en/research/pre-departure-standard","datePublished":"2026-08-29","dateModified":"2026-08-29","abstract":"Most of the problems we see students face in Japan every day — language, part-time rules, housing, insurance, sending money, the law — can be taught before they leave. From BSSAJ's experience, JEJC's twelve post-arrival services and the Embassy seminars, this paper proposes a six-part pre-departure standard that the government could make compulsory for every student consultancy.","keywords":["pre-departure orientation Bangladesh Japan","student compliance Japan 28 hours","legal remittance students","BSSAJ standard","student consultancy regulation"]}],"agenda2030":[{"goal":"55,000 Bangladeshi students to Japan in 2026–2030","measure":"Yearly targets: 9,000 (2026) → 13,231 (2030)"},{"goal":"An SSW pathway for students refused a COE","measure":"8,206 SSW workers in five years (25% annual growth)"},{"goal":"More language-test seats and equal recognition of all approved certificates","measure":"Seat counts; post-COE approval 74% → 99%"},{"goal":"Policy dialogue on the 28-hour weekly work limit","measure":"A formal meeting; a policy review initiated"},{"goal":"Legal remittance and a student–Embassy link","measure":"Volume of students' legal remittance"},{"goal":"An international education fair and a JASSO-approved school network","measure":"Participating schools; schools newly accepting from Bangladesh"},{"goal":"A BSSAJ Tower and research centre in Bangladesh","measure":"Centre opened; students trained per year"}],"recentActivities":[{"date":"2026-10-13","title":"Nagoya seminar — BSSAJ's expansion into central Japan","role":"Organiser","place":"Nagoya"},{"date":"2026-09-21","title":"JLPT Achievers' Reception & Japan Guideline Seminar 2026","role":"Organiser","place":"International Mother Language Institute, Segunbagicha, Dhaka","source":"https://bssaj.org"},{"date":"2026-08-10","title":"Seminar: “Possibilities and Challenges for Japanese Language Schools in Accepting Students from Bangladesh” — organised by the Bangladesh Embassy; BSSAJ's fourth seminar","role":"Representative Director, BSSAJ","place":"Sendai City War Reconstruction Memorial Hall, Miyagi","source":"https://bssaj.org"},{"date":"2026-07","title":"JPT Award Ceremony 2026; announcement of 150 extra seats for the August JPT sitting","role":"Participant"},{"date":"2026-06-13","title":"Online seminar: “Importance of Japanese Certification for Job and Study Visa in Japan”","role":"Organiser","source":"https://bssaj.org"},{"date":"2026-04-19","title":"25th Tokyo Boishakhi Mela (silver jubilee), Ikebukuro Nishiguchi Park","role":"Organising support and participation","place":"Tokyo"},{"date":"2026-04-15","title":"Seminar: “Growth of Bangladeshi Students: Prospects and Challenges” — Bangladesh Embassy Tokyo with BSSAJ","role":"President, BSSAJ","place":"Bangladesh Embassy, Tokyo","source":"https://www.bssnews.net/others/378150"},{"date":"2026-02","title":"Advocacy and publicity as the collateral-free education-loan ceiling for Japan-bound students rose to BDT 1,000,000","role":"President, BSSAJ"}],"availableLanguage":["bn","en","ja"],"llms":"https://nagamatsufaruk.com/llms.txt"}