International Japan Opens Up - Foreign workers are on the way
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I appreciate those on the right with the balls to openly state that they oppose legal immigration as much as they do illegal when it includes the "wrong" colored immigrants. You are an honest and accurate spokesperson for the Trump base. You are the man who disproves the charge of "strawman". Keep it up.
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this is bad imo. we need Japanese culture to exist: panty vending machines, corrupt MMA orgs, REAL-incels, bad coffee, etc.
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All wealthy societies have the problem Japan has. It's a problem with civilisation, not specifically the Japanese.
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Yeah seen it increase the last year. Not happy about it .I love the safety here. I had s friend who literally never locked his door, despite living in a city.
Chinese and Koreans are fine, but I see a lot of Indians and Malaysians. The Indian guys have a staring problem. They stare at everything. Def creepy vibes
Chinese and Koreans are fine, but I see a lot of Indians and Malaysians. The Indian guys have a staring problem. They stare at everything. Def creepy vibes
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Where do we apply? I like sushi.
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Replacement migration is legally impossible in Japan right now. There is no birthright citizenship, it's based on ancestry. Starting in the 90s they had a program to accept Japanese-Brazilians, I think around 300 thousand migrated there. Brazil still has the largest overseas Japanese population at 1.6 million.
Even for them it was pretty hard, you had to show detailed documents proving when you migrated out of Japan and many did so in the 1920s.
Japan is now engaging in a program similar to what the Gulf Arabs have, expats from a few countries go there to work for a while and then leave. The main countries will probably be from Southeast Asia, Indonesia and possibly China.
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Japan is overcrowded . A lower population would be good, but the problem is that the % of elderly vs. % of young able bodied workers is not in Japan's favor, thus they need to bring in migrant workers, because how else are they going to keep the country humming along and the elderly taken care of. Automation can only go so far.
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Most Malaysians are Muslim, and virtually all Indonesians are too.
With the way things are going, Japan's current population will shrink to about 10 million in the next 100 years.
Also, Korea, China & Vietnam are going to have their population issues in the future too, due to low birth rates.
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Do you have a solution to solve the labor shortage in the body pillow industry, then? Hmmmm?
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They don't separate their work from life enough. There is honor in not slaving 12 hours 6-7 days a week.
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Japan debuts legal cap on long work hours under labor reform law but for now only big firms affected
Apr 1, 2019
A labor reform law came into force on Monday, setting a legal cap on long work hours to change Japan’s notorious overwork culture blamed for causing sickness and deaths.
Apr 1, 2019
A labor reform law came into force on Monday, setting a legal cap on long work hours to change Japan’s notorious overwork culture blamed for causing sickness and deaths.
The cap, which only targets major companies for now, is one of the three pillars of labor reform pushed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who faces the difficult task of addressing Japan’s shortage of workers that has now become a major issue across various industry sectors.
The law limits overtime work to 45 hours a month and 360 hours a year in principle. The monthly cap can be extended in busy periods, for up to six months a year.
Even in such cases, the ultimate overtime cap of 100 hours a month and 720 hours a year is set. Companies that violate the rules will be punished, possibly with a fine of ¥300,000 ($2,700).
Japan has a tight labor market with companies vying to secure labor amid the aging of its population. In a major policy shift, the country opened its doors to more foreign workers by creating a new visa system on Monday.
As the labor shortage is more severe in certain sectors than in others, construction workers, taxi and truck drivers, as well as doctors will be exempted from the law for five years. The law will become effective for small and midsize companies in April next year.
Such exemptions have already raised concern that smaller companies will be forced to bear the brunt of big companies cutting their own employees’ overtime work.
Critics say it is uncertain whether imposition of the legal cap will drastically change the deeply rooted overwork culture.
The issue of “karoshi,” or death from overwork, was brought into fresh focus after the 2015 suicide of an overworked female worker at advertising firm Dentsu Inc. that was later recognized in 2016 as due to overwork.
In fiscal 2017, Japan had 190 deaths from overwork, including suicides, according to government data.
Skilled professionals with high wages such as consultants and financial traders will be exempted.
Another major feature of the law, ensuring “equal pay for equal work” for regular and nonregular workers, will take effect in April next year.
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Good for them, they really need such changes. Hopefully they can ethically enforce the terms of the visas and the workers don't end up staying longer than they are supposed to.
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can't like, but would.Japan debuts legal cap on long work hours under labor reform law but for now only big firms affectedA labor reform law came into force on Monday, setting a legal cap on long work hours to change Japan’s notorious overwork culture blamed for causing sickness and deaths.
Apr 1, 2019
The cap, which only targets major companies for now, is one of the three pillars of labor reform pushed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who faces the difficult task of addressing Japan’s shortage of workers that has now become a major issue across various industry sectors.
The law limits overtime work to 45 hours a month and 360 hours a year in principle. The monthly cap can be extended in busy periods, for up to six months a year.
Even in such cases, the ultimate overtime cap of 100 hours a month and 720 hours a year is set. Companies that violate the rules will be punished, possibly with a fine of ¥300,000 ($2,700).
Japan has a tight labor market with companies vying to secure labor amid the aging of its population. In a major policy shift, the country opened its doors to more foreign workers by creating a new visa system on Monday.
As the labor shortage is more severe in certain sectors than in others, construction workers, taxi and truck drivers, as well as doctors will be exempted from the law for five years. The law will become effective for small and midsize companies in April next year.
Such exemptions have already raised concern that smaller companies will be forced to bear the brunt of big companies cutting their own employees’ overtime work.
Critics say it is uncertain whether imposition of the legal cap will drastically change the deeply rooted overwork culture.
The issue of “karoshi,” or death from overwork, was brought into fresh focus after the 2015 suicide of an overworked female worker at advertising firm Dentsu Inc. that was later recognized in 2016 as due to overwork.
In fiscal 2017, Japan had 190 deaths from overwork, including suicides, according to government data.
Skilled professionals with high wages such as consultants and financial traders will be exempted.
Another major feature of the law, ensuring “equal pay for equal work” for regular and nonregular workers, will take effect in April next year.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2...form-law-now-big-firms-affected/#.XKFHK6R7mUk
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Unless the sand diggers can fight at least at Krakuen Hall.
No Muslim problems at least in Japan
10 years ago china had problems in the future because of massive birth rates. It doesn't mean shit. There are plenty of people there to export.
