Kathmandu, Jan. 17 -- Japan and Nepal have agreed to devise a new labour mechanism at the earliest for sending Nepali workers to Japan.

The agreement was reached during a meeting with a high level Japanese delegation that came to Nepal on Wednesday to discuss the prospect of migration of Nepali workers after the Japanese government unveiled its plan last month.

Japanese delegation and Nepali officials, led by joint secretary Ram Prasad Ghimire, who is also chief of labour relations and social security division at the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security, formally discussed the various aspects of Nepali workers' migration to Japan.

According labour ministry spokesperson Narayn Regmi, the Japanese team informed the Nepali s...