As of the end of October 2010, there were approximately 1.82 million foreign workers in Japan. By nationality, Vietnamese accounted for the largest number, approximately 460,000. However, if bad publicity spreads on social networking sites about Japan’s acceptance system, it is inevitable that the number of Vietnamese workers will decrease.
The immigration bureaucracy, which is in charge of procedures, is understaffed under a system that aims to solve the “labor shortage”.
|NEWS