Vietnam - Japan labor cooperation: More and more effective

Wednesday, 12/09/2018 16:55
The relationship between Vietnam and Japan has been deepened, especially in labour cooperation, providing opportunities for Vietnamese labourers to seek employment in Japan.

Vietnamese laborers work in a Japanese plant. (Photo: VNA)

According to statistics from the Japanese Ministry of Justice, as of late October 2017, over 240,000 Vietnamese laborers were in Japan, accounting for 18.8% of the number of foreign laborers in Japan, making Vietnamese laborers the second largest foreign community in Japan, only after China with 373,000. Vietnam is assessed to be the country with the fastest growth in labour among foreign laborer communities in Japan, with a year-on-year increase of 39.7%.

Vietnamese laborers’ qualifications and ability are appreciated by Japanese businesses. Vietnam News Agency reported that at Koganei Seiki Company’s Maebashi factory in Gunma, where hi-tech components for jet planes, Formula 1 racing cars, special motorbikes and cars are produced with almost zero error, there are 39 Vietnamese engineers. A majority of them who graduated from the Vietnam National University - VNU Hanoi and the Hanoi University of Science and Technology have worked for the company for 3-11 years.

Being one of the 300 outstanding mechanics companies in Japan, Koganei Seiki has started to recruited Vietnamese laborers over the past 12 years with work requirements completely similar to Japanese staff.

Its leaders confirmed that Vietnamese staff had made great contributions to the plant’s prosperity, especially in providing technical initiatives which bring big profits.

Minoru Ogawa, Director of Lead Giken, a Kanagawa prefecture-based small mechanics business, said that it was difficult for such small business to recruit Japanese laborers due to the country’s ageing population. Meanwhile, Vietnamese laborers, once recruited, work very hard and enthusiastically.  

Real Kensetsu, a construction business, has also had access to Vietnamese laborers since 2014. At present, there are 20 Vietnamese working here.

Vietnamese laborers have been considered an important source of human resources in the Japanese market as they have full opportunities for work equally in Japan - a very promising destination./.

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