The U.S. State Department said in its annual Trafficking in Persons Report that some conditions faced […]
"As the length of Japanese language training has been increased from six months at the beginning, and now to nine months, and to 12 months by next year, we all hope more candidates can pass the local examinations," Indonesian Minister of Manpower and Transmigration Muhaimin Iskandar said.
"Unless radical policies are implemented, it is simply a matter of time before manufacturing, consumption, tax receipts, fiscal health, the pension and welfare system, and the very ability of people to make a living will all collapse under the inexorable dual pressures of rapid ageing and rapid declines in the young working population."
Each of the tax offices are thought to have kept such files on more than 1,000 foreign taxpayers, but the number of those identified by nationality or alien registration number is not known.
The government will introduce a point system by the end of the year to give preferential treatment, such as easing the conditions for permanent residency, to non-Japanese with advanced expertise who want to come to Japan, according to a government source.
Hidenori Sakanaka, former Chief of Entry and Residence at the Nagoya and Tokyo Immigration Bureaus, argues that Japan allowing in more foreign workers would boost growth, especially in quake-ravaged areas.
Myo Myint Swe, a 42-year-old refugee from Myanmar, said that since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, he wanted to help those in the Tohoku region affected by the devastation.
"If the expenses for (going to China to) recruit and train are added to their wages, Chinese interns now cost more than Japanese workers," the president said. "I intend to do away with accepting interns over the next three to five years."
A group of 14 Muslims has filed suit against the central and Tokyo metropolitan governments, demanding […]
Common factors among companies whose foreign workers chose not to leave after the disaster, [can be] compiled mnemonically as A-B-C-D, which stand for "Accountability" (dispelling anxiety by working to keep the foreign staff informed); "Bonds" (building relationships that will make them want to stay); "Career" (making the acquisition of "knowledge" their motive for staying on the job); and "Diversity" (discarding the awareness of differences because the workers are foreigners).