{"id":2877,"date":"2009-01-23T13:03:51","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T13:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=2877"},"modified":"2009-01-23T13:03:51","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T13:03:51","slug":"japan-works-hard-to-help-immigrants-find-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/23\/japan-works-hard-to-help-immigrants-find-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Works Hard to Help Immigrants Find Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a telling article in today’s Washington Post<\/a> by frequent Japan writer Blaine Harden<\/strong><\/a> (not a JET alum) on efforts by the Tokyo government to help immigrant workers in Japan stay in Japan in the face of job losses and factory closures.\u00a0 There seems to be increasing acceptance by Japan’s policy makers that significantly increased immigration is the solution to the potential future economic crisis likely to result from Jaan’s diminshing youth population.<\/p>\n

From a JET alumni perspective, it’s worth paying attention to this issue.\u00a0 How will this affect Japan in the future?\u00a0 What opportunities will be available?\u00a0 In some ways, the JET Program along with the laws in the early 1990s that allowed South Americans of Japanese descent to work in Japan are smaller version experiments with immigration.\u00a0 Perhaps JET alumni have some perspectives to offer and\/or roles to play in the future of Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a telling article in today’s Washington Post by frequent Japan writer Blaine Harden (not a JET alum) on efforts by the Tokyo government to help immigrant workers in Japan stay in Japan in the face of job losses and factory closures.\u00a0 There seems to be increasing acceptance by Japan’s policy makers that significantly increased […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,10,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-career","category-japan-trends"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t