JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- 秘書及び業務サポート
- 加治金属工業株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M / Year
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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- ALT - Mie Prefecture - Yokkaichi City - June start
- NPO法人グローバル教育推進機構（GLAD), Mie
- Salary: ¥230,000 / Month For a full working month. Some months differ.
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TKinJapan
After 11 years in Japan, I had not realised that the holiday on the 5th May is similar to 'April Fools Day'. Surely the report that Japan’s ruling party is considering plans to encourage foreign workers to stay in the country long-term, must have been written in jest.
Given the government's recent moves to persuade immigrants and visitors not to come to Japan in the first place, it surely cannot be considering that foreign nationals would want to stay in a Japan, where they are not welcome. The new port-of-entry procedures by the Department of Immigration are at least an infringement on civil rights. Not to mention the move towards a Japanese proficiency test before being able to apply for permanent residence.
As Boys' Day, 5th May, must now be the equivalent of April Fool's Day, what is the next joke that can be thrown at your readers?
Posted in: Gov't looks to immigrants as population shrinks