{"id":277,"date":"2007-03-19T17:22:10","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T08:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=277"},"modified":"2007-03-19T17:22:10","modified_gmt":"2007-03-19T08:22:10","slug":"keidanren-pushing-for-more-foreign-it-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"Keidanren pushing for more foreign IT workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Blog.  Excerpting from Terrie&#8217;s Take Issue 413, March 19, 2007.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.japaninc.com\/terries_take\">http:\/\/www.japaninc.com\/terries_take<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All data and commentary is theirs.  I&#8217;ll just add that Keidanren is displaying the typical work-unit mentality one finds in any organization only thinking of the bottom line, not the welfare of their workers.  With that undercurrent, the policy will create more social problems than you think.  Hasn&#8217;t Keidanren learned anything from its problematic Researcher and Trainee Visa experiments from 1990?  Oh, yeah&#8211;just make the foreigner pass a language test.  That&#8217;ll fix everything.  Right.  Debito<\/p>\n<p>====================================<\/p>\n<p><b>-> Relaxed engineer visas<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese Business Federation, Keidanren, has<br \/>\nrecommended to the government that the immigration<br \/>\nrequirements for foreign engineers&#8217; visas be relaxed, to<br \/>\nencourage a larger number of people to come work here,<br \/>\nparticularly in IT. They suggest that engineers coming in<br \/>\nunder the experience category be allowed in after just 4<br \/>\nyears of relevant work experience, versus the current 10<br \/>\nyears. But before you think that Keidanren is going soft,<br \/>\nthey are also looking at recommending Japanese-language<br \/>\nrequirements on future worker intakes, to alleviate<br \/>\nproblems typically associated with a surge of foreign<br \/>\nworkers. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>***Ed: Hmmm, we doubt that they&#8217;ve thought this<br \/>\nthrough too much. Imposing Japanese language skills will<br \/>\nadd at least 3-5 years on to the supply curve, and given<br \/>\nthe choice of English or Japanese, most Chinese and Indian<br \/>\nengineers are going to pick the global language. Japan<br \/>\nneeds to understand that internationalizing may in fact<br \/>\nmean accepting English as a second language, as has<br \/>\nalready happened in Europe and in most of the rest of<br \/>\nAsia. This is not heresy, just pragmatism.**  (Source:<br \/>\nTT commentary from nikkei.co.jp, Mar 18, 2007)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nni.nikkei.co.jp\/AC\/TNKS\/Nni20070317D17JF744.htm\">http:\/\/www.nni.nikkei.co.jp\/AC\/TNKS\/Nni20070317D17JF744.htm<\/a><br \/>\nENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese Business Federation, Keidanren, has recommended to the government that the immigration<br \/>\nrequirements for foreign engineers&#8217; visas be relaxed, to encourage a larger number of people to come work here, particularly in IT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,14,16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-assimilation","category-japanese-government","category-japanese-politics","category-labor-issues","category-problematic-foreign-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}