We Conducted an Interview Survey with Narita International Welfare College / Akiba Gakuen Educational Corporation on Promoting the Settlement of Foreign Residents Interview research on foreign resident settlement, multicultural inclusion and regional support

May 2026

Support for an Interview Survey on Promoting the Settlement of Foreign Residents
focusing on the points of contact among educational institutions, foreign residents, and local communities, and organized practical implications for multicultural coexistence and long-term settlement in the community

We Conducted an Interview Survey with Narita International Welfare College / Akiba Gakuen Educational Corporation on Promoting the Settlement of Foreign Residents

Survey Overview E-LINE Co., Ltd. conducted, for Akiba Gakuen Educational Corporation, which operates Narita International Welfare College, Interview Survey on Promoting the Settlement of Foreign Residents We conducted this survey. To understand the support and challenges involved when foreign workers and international students study, work, and continue living in Japan, we interviewed an educational institution about learning support, daily-life support, employment support, points of contact with the local community, and approaches to multicultural coexistence.

Background of the Survey In local communities facing population aging and declining birthrates, securing people to work in welfare, long-term care, healthcare, and daily-life support is an important challenge. Within this context, creating an environment in which foreign workers and international students can settle in the community and study, work, and live with confidence is regional sustainability, multicultural coexistence, and development of the welfare workforce is becoming increasingly important from the standpoint of these issues. In this interview survey, we did not treat the settlement of foreign residents merely as a means of securing labor, but instead considered a system that provides integrated support for education, daily life, employment, and community participation We emphasized understanding it from this perspective.

Survey Participants Drawing on the educational knowledge of Narita International Welfare College and Akiba Gakuen Educational Corporation, the interviews explored learning, language, daily-life, and employment challenges that foreign students and international students are likely to face in Japanese society. Narita International Welfare College is positioned as an educational institution involved in developing human resources needed by society in areas such as welfare, healthcare, childcare, and IT, and in considering the settlement of foreign residents it also Connecting School Education and the Local Community is considered an important subject for examination.

Interview Topics The interviews focused on concerns foreign students experience before and after enrollment, support for understanding classes and Japanese, consultation systems for daily life in the community, preparation for part-time work, practical training, and employment, prospects for remaining in the community after graduation, and matters on which government, companies, and schools should collaborate. In particular, what is needed so that acceptance of foreign workers does not end with a temporary stay, but instead enables them to build a foundation for life in the community From this perspective, we organized the roles that educational institutions can play.

Qualitative Research Because the aim was to understand practical perceptions and support challenges that are difficult to capture through numerical data alone, this survey was conducted as qualitative research centered on interviews The survey was conducted in this manner. We organized the substance of the interviews and classified factors related to promoting the settlement of foreign residents according to perspectives such as learning support, daily-life support, career support, regional collaboration, institutional challenges, and psychological reassurance. In doing so, we aimed to structure the information in a form that can be readily used for future policy and program consideration rather than simply recording opinions.

Key Issues The issues emphasized through the interviews included the need to provide integrated support for foreign students' Japanese-language learning, acquisition of specialized knowledge, daily life in the community, and future employment rather than treating these areas separately This is an important point. Promoting the long-term settlement of foreign residents requires not only support for enrollment and employment, but also consultation on everyday difficulties, relationship-building with local residents, understanding of cultural differences, and access to information that helps individuals envision their future.

Role of Educational Institutions Educational institutions such as Akiba Gakuen Educational Corporation not only provide foreign students with specialized knowledge, but also basic understanding needed to live in Japanese society, development of work-related perspectives, and opportunities to connect with the local community plays a role in supporting these processes. In particular, fields related to welfare and daily-life support require communication with service users, cultural understanding, ethical awareness, and a strong sense of responsibility. We therefore organized the findings around the importance of providing support from the educational stage onward with an awareness of connections to the local community.

Long-Term Settlement in the Community To achieve long-term settlement of foreign residents, it is necessary not only for foreign workers to obtain employment after graduation, but also to housing, daily-life consultation, Japanese-language learning, workplace adaptation, community participation, family formation, and long-term career development requires support with these longer-term outcomes in mind. This survey confirmed the importance of government, schools, companies, and local organizations working together to create an environment in which foreign students are less likely to become isolated, so that learning at educational institutions can lead to long-term settlement in the community.

Multicultural Coexistence Furthermore, promoting the settlement of foreign residents is not an initiative that asks only foreign residents to adapt. Local communities must also understand differences in language, culture, daily customs, religious backgrounds, views of family, and views of work, and how to build a local community in which people live together must be considered. Accordingly, when organizing the interview content, we treated support for foreign residents not merely as individualized responses to people facing difficulties, but also as Building Communities for Multicultural Coexistence We emphasized viewing it from this perspective.

Analytical Perspectives In this survey, we organized the interview content into challenges faced by foreign students themselves, support challenges for schools, challenges in connecting students with employers and practical-training sites, and support issues expected of government and local communities. This approach treats the challenges of promoting the settlement of foreign residents not as the responsibility of a single institution, but rather as what roles educational institutions, government, companies, and local residents should each play and used the findings as foundational material for considering these issues.

Future Applications The purpose of this survey was to organize practical knowledge related to promoting the settlement of foreign residents through interviews with Narita International Welfare College and Akiba Gakuen Educational Corporation, and to obtain insights that can be used in future regional policy, support measures for foreign residents, school-community collaboration, and welfare workforce development. Specifically, we examined support for accepting foreign students, daily-life support systems, employment support, post-graduation settlement in the community, collaboration with government, and promotion of multicultural coexistence The results are intended to be used as reference material for considering these issues.

SEO Focus This page is organized around search needs related to promoting settlement of foreign residents, Narita International Welfare College, Akiba Gakuen Educational Corporation, foreign workers, international-student support, multicultural coexistence, regional settlement, welfare workforce development, interview surveys, and qualitative research, and initiatives in which local communities and educational institutions work together to support the settlement of foreign residents We organized the content in this form. Rather than presenting only an activity report, the page was structured to also reach local governments, educational institutions, welfare professionals, and corporate personnel interested in support for foreign residents and multicultural coexistence.

Research Support E-LINE Co., Ltd. provides analytical support tailored to specific objectives, including interview surveys, hearing-based surveys, open-ended response analysis, text mining, regional-issue research, surveys for educational institutions, and survey design related to support for foreign workers. In particular, we carefully organize voices from the field that are difficult to capture through numbers alone and organize the findings in a format that can be used in reports, policy-planning materials, presentation materials, and research materials We place emphasis on this perspective.

Summary Promoting the settlement of foreign residents is an important theme not only for responding to population decline and labor shortages, but also for considering the future shape of local communities. Through this interview survey, we organized the finding that educational support, collaboration with government, companies' acceptance systems, and understanding among local residents must be mutually connected in order for foreign students and workers to study, work, and continue living in the community with confidence.

Going forward, E-LINE Co., Ltd. will continue to promoting settlement of foreign residents, multicultural coexistence, regional-issue research, educational-institution research, welfare workforce development, interview surveys, and qualitative analysis Through support related to these issues, we will continue contributing to solving regional challenges and building sustainable communities.

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