TOKYO, Japan—Only one Filipina nurse, Ever Lalin, on Friday passed the Japanese nursing exam, the first to do so under Japan’s drive to attract Asians to help ease the nation’s severe shortage of nurses.
Filipino nursing graduates. Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/11247415@N07/
Two other Indonesian nurses overcame language barriers and passed the test after coming to Japan in 2008 and 2009, the health ministry said.
However, 251 others from the two nations failed, apparently due to language troubles since all of them are licensed nurses in their home countries.
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