{"id":8945,"date":"2011-05-24T17:50:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T08:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=8945"},"modified":"2012-07-20T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T01:00:18","slug":"nikkei-business-magazine-special-may-2-2011-on-the-future-and-necessity-of-nj-labor-to-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=8945","title":{"rendered":"Nikkei Business magazine special (May 2, 2011) on the future and necessity of NJ labor to Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hi Blog.\u00a0 Getting back to business, here is an excellent series of articles on how important NJ labor has been and will be to Japan’s future.\u00a0 Eighteen pages on the whos, whats, and why-you-should-cares in the Nikkei Business magazine dated May 2, 2011 (thanks to MS).<\/p>\n

After the cover (Title: Kieta Gaikokujin Roudou Ryoku:\u00a0 Nihonjin dake de shokuba o mamoreru ka<\/em>, or “Disappeared NJ Labor Force:\u00a0 Can Japanese maintain the workplaces by themselves?”) and table of contents, we open with a splash page showing Chinese waiting for their bags at the airport carousel after returning to China.<\/p>\n

Pages 20 through 23 give us an assessment of NJ labor in several business sectors:\u00a0 Restaurants, Textiles, Finance, Convenience Stores, Agriculture, IT, Education, Tourism, and Airflight, headlining that the NJ labor force has “evaporated”.<\/p>\n

Pages 24 and 25 give us the raw data, noting that the majority of NJ (55%) work in small companies of less than 100 employees, and that the near majority of NJ laborers (44%) are Chinese.\u00a0 The point is that “a closed Japanese labor market is impossible”.<\/p>\n

Pages 26 and 27 give us a close up about a farm that lost none of its workers, and even asked (for a change, given the Japanese media) what NJ thought.\u00a0 It was all part of the magazine’s suggestions about what should be done to improve things and give NJ a stake:\u00a0 Accountability, Bonds, Careers, and recognizing Diversity.\u00a0 Even offered suggestions about how to simplify Japanese.<\/p>\n

Pages 27 and 28 are the “money shot”, where the article says most of the things that we have said all along here on Debito.org and in my Japan Times articles<\/a>:\u00a0 You can’t keep on using people as simple throwaway labor and expect them to stay, and you can’t keep doing things like bribe people to go back (as was done with the Nikkei in 2009) or make hurdles too high to get over (as is being done with NJ nurses) and expect a sustainable labor force.<\/p>\n

Good stuff.\u00a0 And about bloody time.\u00a0 Scans of pages in gallery form below.\u00a0 Arudou Debito<\/p>\n

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