Japan's Internship Training Program for Foreign Workers: Education or Exploitation?
Satoshi Kamata
Japan's Internship Training Program for Foreign Workers: Education or Exploitation?
Kamata Satoshi
Translated and edited by Nobuko Adachi
In 1993, when Japan still depended on foreign labor in the last days before the Bubble Economy burst, the Japanese government introduced a Foreign Training Internship Program. Although it was claimed that this system was designed to support foreigners in their acquisition of technical skills and knowledge of Japanese advanced technology, in reality it has been used to make up for a shortage of unskilled labor in Japan. Because the Japanese government is reluctant to invite transnational migrant laborers into the country, companies have had to look for new ways to find workers. As a result, many foreigners enrolled in the training-internship program—with valid three-year work permits—become a source of cheap labor, and end up working under wretched conditions.
Japan's Internship Training Program for Foreign Workers: Education or Exploitation? | The Asia-Pacific Journal
60 Japanese arrested, lack alien work permits
The company’s employees and officers were served a search warrant for allegedly working without an employment permit for non-resident aliens.
60 Japanese arrested, lack alien work permits | Cebu Daily News
SPECIAL WORK PERMIT - COMMERCIAL
Who can apply? A foreign national who shall engage in gainful employment for three to six months
Request Rejected
Japan and Philippines have similar laws. Japan requires foreign interns to get valid work permit, Philippines requires them to get special work permit.
If Philippine make it so goddamn hard to cultivate business , Japan need to leave . So stupid government so fuxking corrupt in Manila and still try to scrutiny Japan businesses there ??????? So fvcking stupid Philippine government policy. Japanese business get out of shit country! Better go to Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, India.
60 Japanese arrested, lack alien work permits
1:20 AM | Saturday, September 12th, 2015
More than 60 Japanese nationals were arrested last night in a raid by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) 7 in a call center in IT Park in Lahug, Cebu City.
The company’s employees and officers were served a search warrant for allegedly working without an employment permit for non-resident aliens.
The Japan Intertrade Call Center Corporation (JICC) has been operating for five years at the TGU Tower.
More than 100 Japanese nationals work in the company, but only those who were around when the NBI arrived were rounded up, said NBI-7 Assistant Director Augusto Eric Isidoro.
The call center occupies part of the fifth floor of TGU Tower, one of the biggest structures in IT Park with 15 stories for lease or rent, mostly to call centers. The building built by Innoland Development Corp.
Locators in the IT Park, a special economic zone, enjoy tax holidays and other government incentives, as buildings or companies accredited with the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA)
The NBI with two witnesses applied for the warrant issued by Executive Judge Monalila Tecson of the Cebu City Trial Court last September 10.
The warrant said there was probable cause to believe that the subjects of the raid violated Article 40 in relation to Article 302 of the Labor Code or Presidential Decree 442.
The warrant was issued against Japanese nationals Eiichi Chiba, Megumi Nagayama, Shota Shimizu, Yuko Tsushima, Naotaka Yahagi, Eisuke Gotoh, Yumi Nakamura, Kaori Yonai, Sayuri
Marusugi and Toshikawa Taketumi and “officers, lessees, employees and occupants” of the company in Room 503-C of TGU Tower.
The search warrant authorized the seizure of cash and payroll vouchers, employment contracts, records and immigration documents, including passports and extension visas, and computers sets and accessories.
“We received information regarding Japanese nationals working here without the necessary alien permit from the Department of Labor and Employment, a violation of PD 442 specifically for alien employment,” said Isidoro.
Under the Labor Code, “any alien seeking admission to the Philippines for employment purposes and any domestic or foreign employer who desires to engage an alien for employment in the Philippines shall obtain an employment permit from the Department of Labor.”
Surveillance of the Japanese nationals was coordinated with the Bureau of Immigration. Isidoro said two representatives of Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) 7 were present during the raid but the foreigners failed to present their Alien Employment Permit (AIP).
“The business itself is legal, they just don’t have the alien employment permit. We are also checking their business permits,” said Isidoro, who described the company as a service provider operating like a call center.
The violation is penalized with three months to three years imprisonment, and a fine of P1,000 to P10,000.
“We will file a case for violation of the Labor Code. If they are convicted, they will be automatically deported without administrative proceedings,” said Isodoro.
The arrested were taken into custody by the NBI-7 which has the documents for safekeeping. The computers used in the company were sealed as evidence to be turned over to the court within 48 hours.
60 Japanese arrested, lack alien work permits | Cebu Daily News
You know Japan fund billion dollar investment in Cebu, Bohol? Mac tan Bridge revamp fund by JICA ODA, shit man Bohol airport funding by JICA. Japan bring BILLIONs to you country , and repay this way ???????
No shame ??????? So fvcking dumb