News Number of foreign workers in Japan exceeds 2 million

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The number of foreign workers in Japan has surpassed 2 million for the first time, reaching a record high as the nation grapples with a worsening labour shortage. The labour ministry announced Friday that, as of the end of October, there were 2,048,675 foreign workers in the country, an increase of 225,950 from a year before. The report also showed an increase in the number of technical trainees, which had decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Top 3 by nationality:

1. Vietnam (518,364)
2. China (397,918)
3. The Philippines (226,846)

The ministry said that as of the end of last October, the number of foreign workers in the country was 2,048,675 -- up more than 220,000, or 12.4 percent, from the previous year. The figure marked a record high for the 11th straight year. By nationality, Vietnamese workers topped the list at 518,364, accounting for over a quarter of the total, followed by Chinese nationals at 397,918 and Philippine nationals at 226,846. The number of Indonesian workers had the highest growth year on year, at 56 percent, followed by those from Myanmar at 49.9 percent and Nepal at 23.2 percent. By residency status, 615,934 workers were ethnic Japanese or spouses of Japanese nationals, accounting for the largest group. There were 595,904 skilled professionals such as engineers and researchers, and 412,501 technical trainees. Most of the foreign workers, or 552,399, were employed in the manufacturing sector, 320,755 in the service sector and 263,555 in the wholesale and retail sectors.

Number of foreign workers in Japan hits record high at over 2 mil. | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

The number of foreign workers in Japan exceeded the 2 million mark for the first time ever last year.

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[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

If check a skill trainee system, of me did not often know it, and is ashamed.

"Transfer of domicile" is possible, and worry about a new system as a substitute for "skill training" in working one year
[News morning coat satellite - TV Tokyo]; (October 19, 2023)


The well-informed person meeting of the government which examined a review of the skill training system for foreigners showed the original plan of the last report on 18th. I admit "transfer of domicile" to change the workplace in a principle, the same field where it was not admitted until now with the proviso that I work for one workplace in the new system as a substitute for the skill training more than one year, and there are a constant skill and Japanese ability. I want to be able to connect to the medium-and-long term working of the foreign worker, and the well-informed person meeting is going to gather the last report in November.

[to a review] "Transfer of domicile" is possible under conditions of foreign "skill training system" uniformity.


In various fields supporting our life, it is the skill trainees of the foreigner virtually that it is valuable human resources while a labor shortage becomes the problem. It was "the skill training system" that could learn a technique while a foreigner worked in Japan, but the government announced the plan for the review of the skill training system on 18th. I reported what kind of problem there was with a current "skill training system".
Vietnamese Ain visited Japan as "the skill trainee" who learned a technique of the work last year in Japan.

It is the skill training system of the purpose that I bring up the human resources of developing countries, and do an international contribution. There are agriculture and fishery, various fields including the food processing and learns a technique in Japan while about 350,000 people work. (at end of June, this year)

However, there were various problems with a system.

Ain worked in a sewing factory of the underwear until this July, but it is said that outstanding payment of the overtime pay continued.

Ain which visited Japan as a skill trainee
"I worked from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. once"

It is the video which it photographed to prove that I worked overtime at around half past 10 p.m. after the overtime work that Ain showed it.

Ain
"It was hard. Why is work assigned only to oneself more and more?"

The relations with the co-worker did not go well, too, and Ain retired. Still looked for the next workplace saying "want to work in Japan", but ...

Ain
As "there was little work of the sewing of the underwear in Japan, I was not able to readily look for other places"

As for "the transfer of domicile to change the workplace," a lot of limits "not to be able to transfer their domicile to any place other than the same type of job" were not found in the new workplace in the current system after all.

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Difficulty of this transfer of domicile becomes the big problem, and the consultation from a skill trainee does not cut off a trace under the NPO group.

"Consultation comes for 20 from ten cases a day" Director smart support society Itsuki Yoshimizu Representative Yutaka with NPO corporation Higoshi

People leaving the workplace occur successively without being able to transfer the domicile when I had a problem in the workplace including power harassment and the violence. According to the Immigration Bureau agency, it is said that the skill trainee who lost whereabouts reaches about 9,000 last year in one year.

Support society Itsuki Yoshimizu Representative Yutaka director smart with NPO corporation Higoshi "there are many youths who can become impatient, and choose the way of the disappearance. What I make the system which I can support properly when some problem happened is necessary"

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Therefore the government announces the plan for the review of the skill training system on 18th. If I relax a limit of the transfer of domicile, and I stand for one year after setting to work, and any reason meets a constant condition, it is that it allows you to transfer your domicile.

In addition, over a skill training system, there were other problems.

Hue of the skill trainee working in a sewing factory of Gifu-shi learns the sewing such as clothes.

Skill trainee Hue
"The work is fun and is studying Japanese now"

However, it is up to five years that I can stay in Japan as a skill trainee. As for Hue, it is necessary to shift to "an identification skill system" to learn a more expert technique to remain in Japan to reach five years in this year after visiting Japan.

Because "the specific skill system" consists of 12 fields while "the skill training system" is 88 types of job and is constructed, there are the work contents which there is not in a part, an identification skill system. Because the "fiber, clothes" which are the type of job of Hue relations enter the type of job that "a specific skill system does not have", I cannot continue work same in Japan when it is the present system.

Skill trainee Hue
As "I want to work at this company, I pray for sewing being added to a specific skill system"

For the side to employ, the skill trainee becomes important human resources.

Eye S Jay enterprise Takahiro Igawa, representative director because "there are not human resources, is really a savior in this sense? After all it is a place to desire earnestly that wants you to stay by all means"

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For the plan of the government announced this time, I founded the new system as a substitute for the skill training system and made the type of job of the new system agree with "a specific skill system" and proposed it when even the same work should allow it to shift to "an identification skill system".

Skill trainee Hue
I love this work very much. I want the money, too"

The well-informed person meeting of the government is going to submit the last report within this year.