Sunday May 27, 2012

Some of them want to come back, but they apparently can't because their parents are strongly against it. We've cut production because our Japanese staff can't work full-time since they have to clean up their homes and for other reasons.

An official at a seafood processing company in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. The number of foreign trainees in the disaster-affected prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima has nearly halved since the March 11 disaster. (Daily Yomiuri)

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    electric2004

    This "and for other reasons" is actually no useful explanation of a reason at all.

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    MaboDofuIsSpicy

    I do not understand the point of this statement.

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    electric2004

    There is something missing from the original publication. There the topic was about foreign workers, especially from China, who come to Japan under the pre-text of receiving practical education in Japanese factories.

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    gaijinfo

    I like it how they call these people "trainees," as if they will never achieve even the status of "foreign worker."

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    kurisupisu

    Most being Chinese and are able to get a true picture of what the situation is than the Japanese can!

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