3 foreigners pass Japanese national nursing exam

SANJO, Japan - Yared Febrian (R) and Ria Agustina take part in a press conference in the city of Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture, on March 26, 2010, after becoming the first Indonesians to pass the Japanese national nursing exam. A person from the Philippines also passed the exam that enables them to remain in Japan for a lengthy period.

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