Because of this trend, the issue of female migrant workers has been treated as a feminist issue and as a peculiar social phenomenon of the entertainment industry in Japan. This paper is an attempt made to rectify this slighting of the female migrant to Japan, and to explain why she goes ...
In February Japan said it would lower the Japanese-language requirements for nursing-care workers admitted under the trainee scheme, as fewer had come than expected. “If my issue gets resolved, I would think about continuing to work here,” says Ms Cho—the money is good. “But all my ...
Under this framework, also known as a “memorandum of understanding,” Japanese local governments will offer measures to support the acceptance of foreign workers, such as Japanese language education and daily life support, before and after their arrival in Japan. In exchange, they will receive per...
Foreign workers Countryside Japan Invisibilization Internal migration Transnational migration Labor shortage Rural revitalization 1. Introduction Japan's population, especially in rural areas, is declining. Among many other problems, this leads to a shortage of labor, which hits farmers and small and medi...
FILE PHOTO: Kimono-clad tourists wearing protective face masks walk along Nakamise Street at Asakusa district, a popular sightseeing spot, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Tokyo, Japan October 13, 2020. REUTERS/Issei Kato TOKYO (Reuters) - The ...
He issues his Jackson Day letter of January 8, 1920, and then vacillates between compromise and intransigence on the issue of reservations. In early ... AS Link,JE Little 被引量: 0发表: 0年 Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 281: How the Budget Revolution Was Lost Pentagon expenditures va...
In the current fiscal year, the average minimum hourly wage in Japan is 874 yen (7.82 U.S. dollars). Tokyo marks the highest at 985 yen (8.82 dollars) while workers receive the lowest minimum wage of 761 yen (6.81 dollars) at the Kagoshima Prefecture in southwestern Japan....
5.3.1 Singapore and Japan The migration policies of the major Asian countries receiving migrants can be framed by a triangle. At one corner is Singapore, which welcomes foreign professionals and their families to settle but rotates less-skilled migrant workers in and out of the country. Hong Kon...
of an annual revision of an existing government policy set, introduced at the end of 2018, focused on supporting the daily lives of foreigners resident in Japan (ahead of visa changes that took effect the following year, aimed at facilitating an increase of blue collar workers into the country...
Babul’s employer is among those trying to entice foreign workers, who make up roughly 84 percent of field hands in the country, to stay. “I told my boss I don’t want to be here anymore,” said Babul, who sprays pesticide in the field. “He said the borders are closed, asked ...