{"id":9850,"date":"2012-03-15T16:22:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T07:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=9850"},"modified":"2012-03-15T16:39:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T07:39:22","slug":"mainichi-23-percent-of-japans-top-firms-eager-to-employ-more-nj-why-this-is-not-newsworthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=9850","title":{"rendered":"Mainichi: 23 percent of Japan’s top firms eager to employ more NJ. Why this is not newsworthy."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hi Blog. \u00a0Yet another survey (the last one put up on Debito.org was featured in the Asahi back in April 2010<\/a>) says that Japanese companies want<\/em> to hire foreigners. \u00a0It’s just that, well, like last time, y’know, it’s\u00a0one thing to say you want something to happen, but it’s another thing (i.e., actual news<\/em>) when you make it happen. \u00a0But the lack of job-placement support for NJ graduates of Japanese universities<\/a>, and the horrid treatment of Michael Woodford (who rose through the ranks to CEO over decades of dedication to the company, only to be sacked for “cultural reasons” in an Olympian sea of corruption<\/a>), do not inspire hope for any real news on this front any time soon. \u00a0Arudou Debito<\/p>\n

Submitter JK comments<\/strong>: \u00a0“I would say this is good news, so long as the leadership of these 28 firms don’t conduct themselves like Olympus. \u00a0The companies cited (i.e. Fast Retailing and Aeon) seem to ‘get it’…for these two cases, would you say that, ‘Don\u2019t work for a Japanese company as an NJ and expect equality and upward mobility’ is still applicable?”<\/em><\/p>\n

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23 percent of Japan’s top firms eager to employ more foreigners: survey<\/h2>\n
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Mainichi Shimbun, January 4, 2012<\/strong><\/div>\n
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PHOTO CAPTION<\/strong>: \u00a0Foreign students studying in Japan listen as a company representative explains his firm’s recruitment plan during a recruitment seminar held at Pasona headquarters in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on Oct. 16. (Mainichi)<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Some 23 percent of Japan’s top 122 companies are considering employing more foreigners starting from next year, citing plans for overseas expansion as their main incentive, a Mainichi survey has revealed.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sixty-two companies, some 50.8 percent of all firms surveyed, further answered that they are likely to hire more foreign employees in the next 10 years as well.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Conversely, 45 companies, or 36.9 percent, answered that their foreign employee numbers will remain unchanged. There were no firms that plan to decrease foreign employment from current figures.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The survey, conducted between mid-November and mid-December 2011, sought responses from top executives of leading firms including Fast Retailing Co., Aeon Co., Dai Nippon Printing Co., and Hitachi Ltd.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A strong inclination for hiring foreign employees was observed mainly among companies with overseas expansion ambitions. Fast Retailing Co., the owner of casual wear chain Uniqlo, stated “more overseas shops” as the main reason for the increase, while Aeon Co., another retail giant, cited the necessity of increasing employees from other Asian countries due to the company’s plans for further expansion on the continent.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, companies judged economic prospects in Japan as either declining or about the same as last year. Nearly 90 percent of all companies expressed concern over the rising yen as their prime economic anxiety.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Asked to assess current economic conditions, 66 firms (54.1 percent) answered they had remained unchanged — a sharp increase from the total of 44 firms (37 percent), which gave the same answer in last year’s July-August survey.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

There were no companies that judged current economic conditions as “improved” and only 34 firms (27.9 percent) answered that the economy is gradually improving. The figures were higher during last year’s survey, when a total of 62 companies (52.1 percent) said the economy was improving.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, 21 companies (17.2 percent) judged current economic conditions as either “deteriorating” or “gradually deteriorating,” yet another sharp increase from last year’s 13 companies (10.9 percent) that said so in the 2011 survey.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Europe’s ongoing debt crisis, the yen’s appreciation, and the influence of Thailand’s floods are believed to be some of the reasons behind companies’ worsened economic outlook.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The survey also found that nearly half of all companies (59 firms, or 48.4 percent) believe the economy will stay unchanged in the near future, while 43 firms (35.2 percent) said they expect it will improve.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Furthermore, when asked what the future held for Japan’s employment system, 36 companies answered that they foresee an increase in mid-career recruitment ten years from now, while 20 firms chose “enforcement of merit-based salary” among the provided multiple-choice suggestions.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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(Mainichi Japan) January 4, 2012<\/p>\n

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Mainichi: Some 23 percent of Japan’s top 122 companies are considering employing more foreigners starting from next year, citing plans for overseas expansion as their main incentive, a Mainichi survey has revealed. Sixty-two companies, some 50.8 percent of all firms surveyed, further answered that they are likely to hire more foreign employees in the next 10 years as well. Conversely, 45 companies, or 36.9 percent, answered that their foreign employee numbers will remain unchanged. There were no firms that plan to decrease foreign employment from current figures.<\/p>\n

COMMENT: Well, seems that trumpeting that Japanese companies want to hire foreigners is becoming a periodic media thing (the last survey put up on Debito.org was featured in the Asahi back in April 2010). But saying you want something is not news; actually doing it, is. But the lack of job-placement support for NJ graduates of Japanese universities, and the treatment of Michael Woodford (who rose through the ranks to CEO over decades of dedication to the company, only to be sacked for “cultural reasons” in a sea of corruption), do not inspire hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,35,16,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issue","category-good-news","category-labor-issues","category-media","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9850","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=9850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}