Vietnamese workers are welcomed in Japanese localities

Opening the discussion, Vietnamese Ambassador to Japan Pham Quang Hieu said that there are currently nearly 600,000 Vietnamese people living, studying and working in 47 provinces and cities of Japan.

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On July 30, the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan held a "Seminar on promoting support for Vietnamese workers in Japan to integrate into the local community, develop themselves and their careers."

Attending the seminar were representatives of relevant Japanese agencies, departments and branches, representatives from many localities across Japan such as Yamanashi, Kanagawa, Aichi, Hokkaido, Fukushima, Wakayama provinces...

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Vietnamese Ambassador to Japan Pham Quang Hieu delivered the opening speech at the seminar. (Photo: Nguyen Tuyen/VNA)

Opening the discussion, Vietnamese Ambassador to Japan Pham Quang Hieu said that there are currently nearly 600,000 Vietnamese people living, studying and working in 47 provinces and cities of Japan.

According to the Ambassador, the majority of Vietnamese people work hard, are studious, live in harmony and are friendly, and constantly study and improve their Japanese language skills to develop themselves, their families and their careers, contributing to the Japanese economy as well as developing the friendly relations between the two countries.

The Ambassador said that after the Japanese Government revised its policy, allowing excellent foreign workers to live and work long-term in Japan, the number of Vietnamese workers in Japan will continue to increase in the coming time.

Therefore, the Embassy organized the seminar to exchange opinions with agencies, departments, branches as well as Japanese localities on measures for Vietnamese workers to choose Japanese localities as a destination to work and live long-term, become a part of local society and effectively contribute to the socio-economic development of that locality.

Yasuhisa Arai, a representative of the Japanese Ministry of Justice, presented an overview of the new recruitment and training system announced by the government on June 21. He said that under the new law, the system for training technical intern trainees through skills transfer will be fundamentally re-evaluated, while a new training and recruitment system will be established to develop and secure human resources in areas where Japan is experiencing labor shortages.

The law aims to ensure the conformity of labor dispatch, by creating a bilateral agreement (MOC) with the sending country and enacting a system to prevent unreasonably high fees being paid to sending organizations.

The law also aims to protect the rights of foreign workers, by allowing them to change jobs at will, under certain conditions, and at the same time, promote the development of a friendly local environment by organizing regional councils.

Representatives from Yamanashi, Kanagawa and Aichi prefectures presented their local-specific efforts to attract foreign workers, especially Vietnamese workers.

In his presentation “Creating an environment for Vietnamese people to develop and play an active role,” Director of the Yamanashi Prefecture Human Resources and Diverse Society Promotion Bureau, Mr. Furusawa Yoshihiko, outlined three goals: “creating a multicultural symbiotic society”; “being a place chosen by foreign workers” and “becoming a second home for foreign workers.”

He said the province has a population of nearly 800,000 and an area of 4,500 square kilometers. The Vietnamese are the second largest foreign community in the province with 4,055 people, but the largest group of foreign workers in the province with more than 3,019 people.

In an interview with a VNA reporter, Mr. Furusawa Yoshihiko admitted that the labor shortage in Yamanashi province is getting more and more serious, ensuring human resources has become a difficult problem, so the province wants to be able to recruit more foreign workers, especially in the field of nursing care.

He said that the receiving companies assessed Vietnamese workers as hard-working, friendly and loving Yamanashi. He believed that Vietnam is the closest place to the Japanese people and would be easily accepted by Vietnamese workers as a second home.

Mr. Furusawa Yoshihiko emphasized that this is the reason why Vietnamese workers were chosen as the first subjects of Yamanashi province's health insurance system for their relatives in the country.

In his presentation titled “Kanagawa Prefecture’s Initiative for Local Vietnamese,” Mr. Tsukamoto Toshiharu, Director of the Department of Labor, Kanagawa Prefecture’s Bureau of Industry and Labor, highlighted the vibrant exchanges between the prefecture and Vietnamese localities, starting with cultural exchanges, then expanding to economic and trade fields.

He said there are 24,614 Vietnamese workers working in the prefecture, accounting for about 2% of the foreign workforce in Kanagawa. This is a prefecture with very active exchange activities with Vietnam, especially the annual Vietnam Festival in Kanagawa and the Kanagawa Festival in many localities in Vietnam such as Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City.

In the context of vibrant cultural, economic and trade exchanges, the province has implemented many initiatives to attract human resources such as accepting Vietnamese students for internships and attracting Vietnamese youth to study abroad.

In an interview with VNA reporters, Head of the International Affairs Division of the Kanagawa Prefecture Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Mr. Yada Kenji, said the prefecture is implementing various initiatives to support foreign students in finding jobs in the prefecture after graduation, such as organizing seminars to guide them on how to find jobs, adapt to the Japanese recruitment system, or Japanese language courses to better communicate and integrate with Japanese people.

Director of the Aichi Prefecture Department of Labor, Ms. Osaki Midori, presented a report on “Initiatives for accepting foreign workers and living with foreigners”, showing that one of the notable points about the labor structure of Vietnam in Aichi Prefecture is that the highly-skilled workforce, that is, the number of people working as engineers and technicians, is up to 22,372 people, accounting for 42.9%, higher than the 35.8% of workers who come as trainees (18,670 people). She said that Aichi is also the prefecture with the largest number of Vietnamese people in Japan with 58,076 people.

Speaking to VNA reporters, Ms. Osaki Midori said Aichi province is often called a manufacturing province because it is a locality with a large number of manufacturing industries such as the automobile industry and the national aerospace industry.

She said Aichi has a highly developed automobile industry, so there are many foreign workers, including Vietnamese workers, working in this industry in Aichi. She said that in the context of localities competing to attract foreign workers, businesses receiving workers need to improve the working environment, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises.

The province also regularly organizes seminars and other events to help businesses understand the law and how to prepare for receiving workers.

In the final discussion, Mr. Yoshinori Otsuki, from the Ueda City Symbiotic Society Research Association, Nagano Prefecture, suggested that all parties, from the central government to local governments, need to have a comprehensive and synchronous plan to increase the attraction of foreign workers.

Ambassador Pham Quang Hieu said that it is necessary to focus on training Japanese language, Japanese culture and skills for Vietnamese workers, emphasizing the continuity of training activities from before going to Japan and need to be maintained even during the process of living and working in Japan.

According to Vietnamplus.vn

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