Japan’s Acceptance of Labor Migrants: Dissonance Between Government Policy and Foreign Workers’ Experiences
Document Type
Panel Presentation
Keywords
Japan, Immigrant, Labor
Biography
Christian Thompson is a 21-year-old international business and Japanese major with minors in international affairs and economics at Marshall University. He is a West Virginia native who has spent extensive time studying at Japanese schools and interning at Japanese corporations. His first contact with Japan was through the Rotary Scholar program through the Charleston Rotary Club. Through Marshall University’s Japanese program, he won the Critical Language Scholarship and participated in the U.S. government’s language education program at Shiga Prefectural University and later went to study abroad at Chukyo University. He currently has his JLPT N2 Certification.
Major
Japanese and International Business
Advisor for this project
Natsuki Anderson
Abstract
What are the shortcomings of current government policies regarding incoming transnational labor, and why have these government policies developed in a way that is insufficient for supporting immigrant workers? Through the comparison of currently enacted government policies and the experience of foreign workers in Japan, the author attempts to investigate the disposition of government policies towards implementing foreign labor and the policies’ insufficiencies for supporting this labor. In the current Japanese government, the implementation of immigrant labor is a common subject. On the contrary, comparison of government policy and immigrant workers’ experiences shows a tone-deafness of the Japanese government’s attitude towards migrant workers.
Japan’s Acceptance of Labor Migrants: Dissonance Between Government Policy and Foreign Workers’ Experiences
What are the shortcomings of current government policies regarding incoming transnational labor, and why have these government policies developed in a way that is insufficient for supporting immigrant workers? Through the comparison of currently enacted government policies and the experience of foreign workers in Japan, the author attempts to investigate the disposition of government policies towards implementing foreign labor and the policies’ insufficiencies for supporting this labor. In the current Japanese government, the implementation of immigrant labor is a common subject. On the contrary, comparison of government policy and immigrant workers’ experiences shows a tone-deafness of the Japanese government’s attitude towards migrant workers.
