海外の反応-外国人実習生が支える日本の町工場――もはや「安価な労働力」ではない

Foreign interns supporting small factories in Japan no longer just ‘cheap labor’ – The Mainichi
byu/fuzzy_emojic injapan

海外のナナシさん

Some excerpts from the article that need to be amplified for some commenters on this subreddit, that have been regurgitating false points about immigration in Japan, while not actually living here:

“Japanese workers rarely come to small companies like ours. We are really grateful (for our foreign workers),” said 74-year-old company president Toshio Kusakabe as he wiped away sweat.

“A certain political party was promoting ‘Japanese First’ ideas, but I don’t really understand what they mean by that. What I do know is that our operation would not exist without foreign workers. That is true for big companies, too. There is no going back now.”

A representative of the Oizumi Society of Commerce and Industry emphasized, “Foreign workers are valuable not only for subcontractors, but also for major companies. If we didn’t have them, business operations would be at risk.”

海外のナナシさん

Anecdotal evidence but every salaryman I speak to (mainly in Izakayas) are generally quite supportive of immigrants because all the companies they’re working at have noticeable labour shortages.

A lot of these immigrants also come in with a lot of extra skills: if they can speak Japanese, it probably isn’t their second language – many of them have an understanding of English that surpasses your usual university graduate.

They’re also way more willing to move out and live in the countryside. Where I am (Hokkaido), the small town clinics are just full of Filipino nurses because most Japanese medics staff move to Sapporo or down south to Tokyo.

海外のナナシさん

This. There are limited prospects in rural areas and the wages are depressed so the only option for staff are usually foreigners. Don’t say why don’t you raise wages and hire Japanese.

Well, i’d have to raise my prices to afford that – which will make the locals cry out about ‘cost of living’ increases.

Ideally, the Japanese government should do a lot more to 1. Encourage people to stay or move out to the more rural areas. 2. Encourage more women to stay in the workforce after getting married/having children.

海外のナナシさん

You are in Hokkaido and people there are more tolerant of foreigners compared to Kanto area.

海外のナナシさん

“At a small factory in east Japan, a 24-year-old Vietnamese worker was busy cutting parts on an early September day the high temperature topped 35 degrees Celsius. While the workplace wasn’t equipped with air conditioning and hot, humid air drifted in through the open windows.”

Maybe they rarely come to your company because you force them to work in slave-like conditions? No AC, what the hell? I LOVE Neoliberal economics and its need to just crush people under the bootheel, even if it takes importing poor immigrants to do so.

海外のナナシさん

Very true.

海外のナナシさん

Its the same thing the MAGA team promotes but the Americans dont want to work in factories anymore. So what now? Take out their food stamps and healthcare to force them to work? I guess they havent learned how revolutions started.

MAGAとは?

「MAGA(マガ)」は「Make America Great Again(アメリカを再び偉大に)」の略で、ドナルド・トランプ前大統領のスローガンとして広まりました。 主に保守的・ナショナリズム的な政治姿勢を支持する層を指し、現在ではトランプ支持者やその政治運動全体を指す言葉として使われています。

海外のナナシさん

That’s a lie. American have been hard hit by losing factory jobs, and they want more. Many got lower paying jobs at warehouses, but now those jobs are going away as well.

海外のナナシさん

As long as there is someone who is willing to get hired with peanuts salary, the companies won’t stop abuse it. Most of the companies that pays peanuts are usually black companies that always gets away with everything when problem occurs because labour law in Japan doesn’t really protect workers.

海外のナナシさん

So he wants slaves and not workers.

“Companies often explain that they hire foreigners because their wages are lower”

海外のナナシさん

Yes, but at the same time, job market is so dry that most Japanese people have the choice to not work those difficult jobs anymore.

海外のナナシさん

Exactly, there are a lot of entry level and shitty job available, but not enough unskilled workers to do them.

And in the countryside it’s even worse when the young leave for tokyo or somewhere bigger because the factories are built in places with big tax benefits to attract people to live there, but there is just not enough

海外のナナシさん

Did you even read the article or just glance over it…?

That part is not a quote by the president of Kusakabe Plastic. That paragraph is the article writer explaining how people say companies hire foreign workers because the costs are lower but it’s not actually the case.

The president of the factory throughout the entire interview is saying how he’s thankful for his foreign staff and how the company is surviving because of them. He states that the costs they pay for the foreign workers is on par with hiring Japanese people. They pay them minimum wage but also cover all training costs, visa costs, travel expenses to Japan, and even cover their union fee.

The guy never once said he wants cheap labor. He’s literally saying how that notion people say is bullshit because it’s untrue when you boil down all the costs. He’s saying Japanese people don’t wanna do these jobs anymore.

海外のナナシさん

Rarely come because the wages are not livable.

海外のナナシさん

A journalist would have asked whether this increase is due to increasing benefits for the workers or due to the Yen’s fall. A reporter who is useful to the status quo might not.

海外のナナシさん

As the yens continues to weaken vs euros and usd, not sure it will work soo well

海外のナナシさん

this is just slavery

海外のナナシさん

Doesn’t make sense. Still cheaper than hiring a local.

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