Japan’s Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) was implemented in 2000 to provide universalized care for the elderly. The rapid expansion of social care requires a growing pool of qualified care workers. Despite the significant labor shortage in this sector, Japan has slowly opened the door to forei...
for example, both manuscripts use the compound 前癡与 for the rendition of Portuguesegentilo(‘Gentiles’). Gentiles is the New Testament term for non-Jewish, non-Christian people; here, the translators mean non-Christian Japanese people. Together,...
Furukawa supplied the product, information on local plantations in Davao, and introductions to Filipino elites, while Daidō Trading channeled funds as needed for cultivation and marketing. This mutually beneficial arrangement led to their collaboration in the production of ramie in the 1930s and a ...
Living in Japan, I’ve seen many Japanese women who work full-time and still make 3 meals a day for their children and husbands as well as care for the elderly. Some people could say that lunch, cleaning, and familial duties are signs of love for women. “OK, carry this human for 9...
They started entering Japan in the late 1990s, while the Brazilian and Filipino Nikkeijin have entered Japan since the 1980s and 1990s, respectively. The trajectory of Nikkeijin from North Sulawesi to Oarai began when a broker, who was also the chief of a factory association in Oarai, came ...