Vietnamese workers welcomed in Japanese localities

Saturday, 03/08/2024 12:45
The Vietnamese Embassy in Japan recently held a “Seminar on promoting support for Vietnamese workers in Japan to integrate into the local community, develop themselves and their careers.”

Vietnamese Ambassador to Japan Pham Quang Hieu speaks at the seminar. (Photo: VNA) 

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the seminar, Vietnamese Ambassador to Japan Pham Quang Hieu said that there are now nearly 600,000 Vietnamese people living, studying and working in 47 provinces and cities of Japan.

According to the Ambassador, majority of Vietnamese people are hard-working, studious, sociable and friendly, and constantly study and improve their Japanese language skills to develop themselves, their families and careers, contributing to the Japanese economy as well as to the development of friendly relations between the two countries.

The Ambassador believes that after the Japanese Government revised its policy, allowing excellent foreign workers to live and work long-term in Japan, the number of Vietnamese workers in Japan will continue to increase in the coming time.

Therefore, the Embassy organized the seminar to exchange opinions with agencies, departments, sectors and localities in Japan on measures for Vietnamese workers to choose Japanese localities as destinations to work and live long-term, become a part of local society and effectively contribute to socio-economic development.

Mr. Yasuhisa Arai, a representative of Japan’s Ministry of Justice, gave an overview of the new recruitment and training system announced by the government on June 21. He said that under the new law, the technical intern training system through skills transfer will be fundamentally re-evaluated, while a new training and recruitment system will be established to develop and secure human resources in fields where Japan is experiencing labor shortages.

The law aims to ensure the appropriateness of worker dispatching by establishing a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) with the dispatching country and enacting a system to prevent unreasonably high fee payment from dispatching organizations.

The law also aims to protect the rights of foreign workers by allowing them to change jobs under certain conditions, and to promote friendly local environments by organizing regional councils.

Ambassador Pham Quang Hieu said that it is necessary to focus on training Japanese language, culture and skills for Vietnamese workers, emphasizing the continuity of training activities before going to Japan and need to be maintained even during living and working in Japan./.

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