Vietnamese people in Japan: A Wikipedia article
This webpage provides information about Vietnamese migration to Japan.
Experts warn Japan’s language schools are becoming a front for importing cheap labor This article looks at the increase in language schools which allow or arrange students to work more than allowed by their visas, at the increase in Vietnamese and Nepalese students which is related to this, at the connections between Japanese and Nepalese language schools for bringing students to Japan which may be close to a system of human trafficking, and at the experiences of two Nepalese students. Japan Times, Jan 3 2017.
"Vietnam, Japan nuclear project intact despite Fukushima" is a newspaper article from October 2011 about nuclear trade between Japan and Vietnam.
"Boat People Put Japan Refugee Policy On Rough Seas" is a 1989 Chicago Tribune article that looks at how Japan responded to the arrival of Vietnamese boat people.
Foreign female interns to sue Toyota subcontractor Six Vietnamese women who came to Japan for industrial training and an internship will sue a subcontractor of Toyota Motor Corp. for more than 30 million yen in damages and unpaid wages. The women claim that JITCO, the government agency in charge of the training program, knew about their situation but did nothing to help. Japan Times, 9 Mar 2007.
Vietnamese killed himself in immigration center, community leader says A Vietnamese man held in a solitary cell at an immigration detention center in Japan committed suicide, a Vietnamese community leader said, raising fresh questions over conditions in the country’s detention facilities. Japan Times, 27 Mar 2017.
Vietnamese who died in Ibaraki detention center killed by stroke: official The death of Nguyen The Hung raised the death toll in Japan’s detention system to 13 since 2006. The deaths have provoked criticism from activists and a watchdog overseeing the centers about the quality of medical care provided to detainees and how they are monitored. Japan Times, 3 Apr 2017
Asian trainees keep Kawaguchi’s furnaces blasting An old article from 2002 that explains the situation of Vietnamese and Chinese trainees working in metal casting furnaces, which makes clear how these trainees have been used as a source of labour by Japanese companies because of the shortage of Japanese workers. Japan Times, 10 Jul 2002.
"Vietnamese man surprised to be driven to Fukushima to do cleanup work" Nikkei Asian Review, 16 Mar 2018.
孤立する技能実習生（1）”奴隷労働”でも「相談先ない」、岐阜縫製のベトナム人女性が相談できない理由 - A story about female technical trainees from Vietnam, isolated in Japan. Yahoo, 6 Feb 2017.
夢破れる外国人労働者たち Article about the situation of foreign workers in Japan, focused on Vietnamese workers, including stories of why they came to Japan and some interviews.) NHK, 20 Sep 2019.
アジア福祉教育財団難民事業本部 1979年以降、インドシナ難民の定住促進事業を展開。「インドシナ難民の様子」を世代ごとやテーマごとに細かくサイト上でも報告。ホームページはミャンマー語でも閲覧可能。
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日本におけるインドシナ難民の現状と課題 －ベトナム人の子どもたちの教育を中心に－, 一般財団法人 アジア・太平洋人権情報センター, ベトナム難民としてきた人々の子供達の教育の現状と今後の課題について。
インドシナ難民 受け入れ３０年を振り返るー私たちは何を学んだのかー, 川上 郁雄（早稲田大学教授）, インドシナ難民の定住の様子や歴史を見ながら、子供達の母語教育や進学などについて述べている比較的短めの論文。
技能実習生の受け入れ現場を歩く, 細野豪志(Politician), HUFFPOST, 1 Mar 2018. 外国人技能実習生を雇っている会社を訪問して、ベトナム人実習生と話したこと。
ベトナム人技能実習生制度のゆがんだ実態, にほんごぷらっと, 14 Nov 2017. 実習生として最も多い人口を誇っているベトナム人たちの、入国前日本語教育や借金問題についての記事。
外国人技能実習生の面接でベトナムに。料金や失踪の実態は？, 長野県転職支援サイト, 17 Mar 2017. 実習生を受け入れる企業側の手続きや流れなどの詳細。
技能実習生のベトナム認定送出機関を公表、日越政府の協力覚書, VIET JO, 5 Apr 2018.
日本でベトナム・ネパール人が急増した事情, 東洋経済オンライン, 29 Jan 2018. アジアからの偽造留学生問題について、コンビニバイトでの外国人割合の増加にふれながら解説。
ベトナム人留学生は泣いているー外国人留学生急増の裏側ー, 東洋経済プラス, Mar 2017. 日本に仕事を求めてやってくる留学生達の現状。
This is a 2008 paper about the Vietnamese diaspora in Japan and the problems that they face.