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Nagasaki Pref. signs pact with Vietnamese college for students to train as care workers Amid a serious shortage of care workers, the Nagasaki Prefectural Government has signed an agreement with a Vietnamese college to allow its students to work as interns in local nursing care services. Mainichi, 2023.
Japan care center internship for foreign students a win-win amid worker shortage An elderly care provider in Osaka Prefecture has welcomed two Indonesian students as interns amid a serious shortage of care workers in Japan. Mainichi, 2022.
The Challenges Facing Japan’s Long-Term Care Services Long-term care has a negative image in Japan as a strenuous job that pays comparatively little. Worker turnover is high and care facilities are chronically short-handed. In today’s rapidly aging society, what can be done to improve conditions? Includes a section on foreign care workers. nippon.com, 2020.
The plight of migrant care workers in Japan: A qualitative study of their stressors on caregiving This is an academic article by Edward Asis and Rogie Royce Carandang in the Journal of Migration and Health, 2020. It highlights the following main points:
The main stressors of migrant care workers in Japan were coworker relationship, language barrier, and work-life balance.
Deteriorating health was one of the primary reasons why most of the migrant care workers desire to quit their job.
Some of the migrant care workers experienced a hostile work environment in their care facility.
The Japanese government is suggested to provide psychosocial support tailored explicitly for migrant care workers.
Despite staff shortages, foreign care workers still face barriers to jobs in Japan This article focuses on the story of Reia Zafra who is a Filipino care worker in Japan and argues that the biggest barrier for foreign care workers is Japanese language abilty especially reading and writing. Mainichi, 31 Aug 2018
Foreign Care Workers in Japan: A Policy Without a Vision This articles criticizes changes in the law in 2017 to make it easier for foreign care workers to work in Japan because they do not solve the long-term problems in japan's system of care work. It also looks at reasons why foreign care workers leave their jobs in Japan with the second part focusing on language issues. Nippon.com, 13 Feb 2017.
Japan's Diet votes yes to more foreign care workers Nursing care will join the list of occupations qualifying for long-term residency. The new residency status will apply to foreigners certified as care workers in Japan. The Technical Intern Training Program was also altered. Participants, including aspiring nursing care workers, can train with companies or other groups for as long as five years, up from three. Nikkei Asia, 2016. You may need to use Chuo's VPN to read this article.
Foreign Nurses and Care Workers in Japan: Reform Needed by Wakisaka Noriyuki. This articles asks why so many young people from Indonesia and the Philippines wanting to work in Japan as nurses or caregivers either can't obtain the qualifications for this or leave after they do qualify. It looks at the difficulties of the tests for foreign candidates as well as differences in the working environment for foreign nurses in Japan and argues that a fundamental change in the system is needed to make it easier for foreign nurses to get jobs in Japan. Nippon.com, 13 June 2012.
Acceptance of Foreign Nurses and Care Workers - A Potential Panacea for Resource Shortage? by Hisashi Uemura, Professor, School of Human Sciences, Waseda University An article arguing against the acceptance of foreign nurses and care workers, and arguing that the shortage of nurses and care workers has to be solved by Japanese society putting more financial resources into paying Japanese young people to enter these professions. Yomiuri Shimbun, 2009(?)
Foreign nurses face the Kanji hurdle An article by Kimie Takahashi that argues that little has been done to find practical solutions to the language problems faced by foreign caregivers in Japan and that foreign caregivers, Japanese co-workers and Japanese management should all work together to find solutions rather than blame non-Japanese workers. Language on the Move, 17 Feb, 2010.
What's behind foreigners working at nursing care facilities in Japan? A basic question and answer explanation of the Economic Partnership Agreement scheme for Indonesian and Filipino nurses and care c cb b bgivers to work in Japan. It explains the scheme, some criticsims of it, and what it effects it may have. Mainichi, March 29, 2012.
BIMA CONC (Cooperation for Overseas Nurses and Care Workers) Foundation helping people who want to come to Japan under EPA programme, nurses and care takers who came to Japan from Indonesia and Philippine, and Japanese people who accept them. They support them by teaching Japanese language, culture, and social system like tax and welfare.