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“Fan” (a pseudonym) came from Vietnam three years ago as a technical intern trainee. He was taking a chance. He knew nothing about Japan, except that wages, even for the unskilled, are higher than at home – much higher. And he’s not unskilled – he was studying architecture. That could wait. His family needed money now, and Japan seemed the place to earn it.
The Technical Intern Training Program, set up in 1993, had lofty goals it is frequently charged with not living up to. Its avowed purpose is to equip young workers from developing countries with skills and work experience they can take home with them, enriching both themselves and their respective countries. All too often it serves as a veneer for exploitation. Overworked, underpaid, underprotected and in extreme cases persecuted, they cope as best they can, sometimes sticking it out, sometimes vanishing from sight, livi
Delhi and Tokyo ink new pact for employment of Indian Skilled Workers in Japan
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“Specified Skilled Worker (SSW)” is a new status of residence created in Japan in April 2019. Japan established this system to accept foreign nationals who have a certain level of expertise and skill. With a declining population and ageing society, there are abundant job opportunities in Japan in certain sectors, officials stated.
AFP
NEW DELHI: As part of efforts to promote soft power Japan’s Ambassador to India Suzuki Satoshi and Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Monday signed the “Memorandum of Cooperation between the Government of Japan and the Government of Republic of India on a Basic Framework for Partnership for Proper Operation of the System Pertaining to ‘Specified Skilled Worker’”.
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India and Japan have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) on a basic partnership framework for operation of the ‘specified skilled worker’ (SSW) system under which the Japanese government accepts foreign nationals who have a certain level of expertise and skill.
“The two governments will hold consultations in the near future to prepare for the implementation of the SSW system with India,” a Japanese official told
BusinessLine.
The memorandum was signed by Japanese Ambassador to India Suzuki Satoki and Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Monday.