A labor shortage in Japan has prompted many companies to look to Myanmar for cheap labor, but other nations in Asia are doing exactly the same--and the pot is growing smaller.
Japan's thirst for cheap labor using foreign technical trainees has led to charges that it is exploiting overseas nationals, an issue about which Takashi Miyajima, professor emeritus of sociology at Ochanomizu University in Tokyo, has a lot to say.
"Although technical trainees are allowed into Japan as 'laborers,' they cannot change jobs if they become dissatisfied with their pay," he said. "Changes should be made to provide the technical trainees with the same wages received by Japanese doing the same work and to give them the freedom to change jobs." (Courtesy of AJW Asahi Shimbun)
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