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Flight of Chinese workers leaves Japanese businesses in the lurch
With many of the tens of thousands of workers who had helped fill Japan’s labor needs having returned to China after the earthquake and tsunami, the country faces another obstacle to recovery. As the manager of a sleek restaurant in Tokyo’s Ginza shopping district, Yu Yoshida never expected he’d be in the kitchen wearing a…
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「私たちはここに残る」 外国人介護士・看護師 被災地で奮闘続く
東日本大震災の被災地では、多くの医療関係者が昼夜を違わず活動を続けている。その中には、日本との経済連携協定（ＥＰＡ）に基づく看護師・介護士候補者の派遣事業で滞日中のフィリピンやインドネシアの女性たちも含まれる。「お年寄りを見捨てて去れない」「地震も津波も怖くない。みんなを助けたい」。彼女たちの献身的な姿勢には「国の誇り」（インドネシア政府）、「介護のヒロイン」（フィリピンのメディア）などと称賛の声が上がり、被災者たちも感銘している。
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Foreign arrivals at Narita airport dive 60% since quake
The number of foreign arrivals at Narita International Airport near Tokyo plunged about 60 percent from a year earlier to some 67,000 between March 11, the date of the massive earthquake, and March 22, officials with the Immigration Bureau said Thursday. In contrast, non-Japanese who left Japan through the country’s biggest international gateway during the…
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Number of foreigners leaving Japan soars 8-fold
An immigration official says more than 161,000 foreigners have left Japan since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that triggered an unfolding nuclear crisis. Taichi Iseki, an immigration official at Japan’s major airport, Narita, said Friday the number of foreigners flying out from March 11 to March 22 totaled 161,300 — an eightfold increase from…
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看護師試験合格のインドネシア人「被災地に行かせて」
看護師国家試験に合格した兵庫県姫路市のインドネシア人スワルティさん（３２）が２５日、勤務先の姫路赤十字病院で記者会見。東日本大震災に触れ「できれば（被災地に）行かせてほしい」と涙ながらに話した。
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Expats in Japan Tiptoe Back to Work
Life in Japan is showing tentative signs of returning to normal, but a fresh challenge may be facing the expatriates and Japanese who left and are now trickling back to their offices: how to cope with ostracism and anger from their colleagues who have worked through the crisis.
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Foreigners again flood immigration
Foreign residents flooded the Tokyo Immigration Bureau early Thursday seeking re-entry permits as fears of a nuclear crisis prompted them to make plans to leave temporarily if needed. More than 2,500 foreign residents had formed a long line stretching outside the immigration office as of noon, apparently due to fears of the unfolding crisis at…
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Thousands swamp immigration
Spooked by the radiation leak at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, thousands of people this week have been applying for re-entry permits in preparation for evacuation from Japan. On Wednesday, the number of applicants at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau appeared to surpass the nearly 5,000 who lined up Tuesday, according to a…
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Foreign workers needed: Maehara
Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara called Wednesday for appropriate rules to accept more foreign workers ahead of an anticipated severe labor shortage in rapidly aging Japan, warning that China’s eventual “supergraying society” could soak up migrant workers.
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Japan must ease migrant rules or lose carers – minister
Japan must completely revise its immigration rules to deal with a shortage of labour in an ageing society or risk losing workers to China, whose population is also greying, Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara said on Wednesday.