TADIAN, Mountain Province: Fifty residents of this province will undergo a four-month Nihongo language training starting in January next year, a major requirement for their possible job deployment to Japan.

Dexter Badaran, president and chief executive officer of the Manila-based Philippine Human Resource Global Information Center (PHGIC), over the weekend said women from this batch are all below 27 years old and the men, also all below 35.

Badaran said the Nihongo language training is a program of the Bulacan-based Sage Asian Language and Education Center and the Dominguez family to ensure that the prospective migrant workers will be proficient in the language before they are sent to Japan.

He cited the demand of the Japanese market for farm workers from Mountain Province.

Local caregivers have been deployed to Japan by the Dominguez family for over three years.

Under the training program, qualified residents will be issued a technical intern training visa for three years with an extension of two years after which they will be issued a specified skills visa for another five years that makes the workers qualified to stay in Japan for a maximum of 10 years.

The PHGIC is a nongovernment organization that has established linkages with individuals and companies in Japan that need skilled Filipino workers.