Foreign domestics seen as aiding working mothers: Shortage of helpers keeps career women with kids out of workplace This article explains arguments in favour of allowing immigration of foreign domestic workers to Japan but also looks at possible resistance to this from within Japanese society because people are reluctant to have non-family members as household helpers. Japan Times, 20 May, 2014.
Osaka zone a litmus test of foreign worker policy This article looks at the plan to create a zone in Kansai to accept foreign domestic workers to allow Japanese women to go out to work. It explains criticisms of the plans including that it may lead to trafficking of women and abuses of the human rights of the migrant women who come to Japan. Japan Times, 20 Jul, 2014.
Japan lays the groundwork for domestic workers from overseas This short article discusses government plans to let foreign workers do domestic work (housework) in Japan, starting from March 2017 in Kanagawa and other "strategic special zones", as well as the problems with working conditions for foreign domestic workers. Nikkei Asia Review, 12 May 2016.
Can Foreign Housekeepers Help Japanese Women Shine? The government is tentatively opening up Japan’s household staffing industry to foreign recruits as part of its policy to support workforce participation by Japanese women. Nippon.com, 18 Feb 2016
Use of foreign workers in housework will lift ban on exploitative manual labor Japan Press Weekly, 8-14 Jul 2016
Check List for Foreign Domestic Workers in Japan This is the check list to make sure the foreign domestic workers’ contract, rights, and protection in Japan National Strategic Special Zones(NSSZ). Asia Japan Women's Resource Center, 6 Jun 2016
The Right to Unite: A Handbook on Domestic Workers' Rights Across Asia This handbook compares the legal situation of domestic workers in different Asian countries and has also has reports on individual countries, including Japan on p41. Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD), 2010