Number of foreign workers employed by Japanese firms at 339,000

Tuesday 09th September, 06:46 AM JST

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rjd_jr at 09:44 AM JST - 9th September

Great for them raising their standards of living. Let's hope they are learning Japanese and integrating into their environments.
ColAmerica at 10:00 AM JST - 9th September

Great that they are increasing Japans standard of living. Let`s hope the Japanese treat them equally in their evironments.
gogogo at 11:01 AM JST - 9th September

Not sure what to make of these reports, sure it's interesting info but are they implying this is a good or bad thing?
kaminarikeizai at 11:26 AM JST - 9th September

How many foreigners are engage in white color jobs in Japan?

Anybody please give me this data.
lipscombe at 11:28 AM JST - 9th September

Great for them raising their standards of living. Let's hope they are learning Japanese and integrating into their environments....

and also once again contradicting the negative naysayers who would say Japan doesnt want foreign workers, double standards?
kaminarikeizai at 11:47 AM JST - 9th September

Japan wants skilled or unskilled labor (with knowledge of Japanese or without knowledge of Japanese) where Japanese people do not want to work.

Many foreigners are not qualified for marketing Jobs in Japanese domestic market, as they are not native Japanese speaker, but they are qualified to work in factories for night shifts. In Japan marketing means no needs to talk with clients. You should know how to waste 5-10 minutes in meisi (business card) exchange and other formalities.
timeon at 12:15 PM JST - 9th September

part time jobs included in these statistics?

without any official data, I've noticed that suddenly most of the staff at izakayas and combini are foreigners (mostly Chinese). I guess the companies changed their policies, because about 5 years ago the foreigners could work only in the back, washing dishes and chopping onion
kaminarikeizai at 12:35 PM JST - 9th September

Dear timeon

Nobody knows how many foreigners are doing part time jobs in Japan.

Japanese companies did not change its old conservative policy.

These days’ Japanese companies hiring more Chinese, Indian, Russian people, so these people can help to boost Japanese sells in their local market.
anczelowitz at 01:10 PM JST - 9th September

Its fine to hire Chinese and other low wage earners as workers to do the farming and other menial labour that Japanese no longer want to do, however in order to stay competative on the global stage, Japan still needs to bring in more international creative and other white collar talent
bushlover at 02:10 PM JST - 9th September

How many are zainichi in those numbers?
Noripinhead at 02:26 PM JST - 9th September

By region, Tokyo accounted for 77,080 of the workers, or 22.8%, followed by Aichi Prefecture with 44,823, or 13.2%, and Shizuoka Prefecture with 22,092, or 6.5%

I'm no math whiz, but that accounts for only 42.5%. I guess Kansai would make up a big chunk of the remainder. Why don't they get a mention?
some14some at 02:46 PM JST - 9th September

In order to make this 'information' more interesting, readers would like to know how many Japanese and foreigners are hired by foreign companies.
Proffessor at 04:24 PM JST - 9th September

kaminarikeizai, job description is irrelvant here. be it blue or white collar, everyone pays his/her chunk of taxes.