** The Philippines Arrested Many Japanese Citizens **

[yoshi.oda]

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

 

[Cossack25A1]

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.

It is in our constitution (an economic restriction clause) which prevents Foreign Direct Investments because the upper classes here in the Philippines (90% of which are Filipinos with Chinese ancestry) are afraid of competition, and despite some calls in removing the said economic restriction, our officials do nothing because they are too busy fattening their bank accounts.

 

[yoshi.oda]

It is in our constitution (an economic restriction clause) which prevents FDI, because the upper classes here in the Philippines are afraid of competition, and despite some calls in removing the said economic restriction, our officials do nothing because they are too busy fattening their bank accounts.

What kind policy that????

 

[WuMaoCleverbot]

The story does not add up. Why would a Japanese company working in Philippines import workers from Japan instead hiring from local market at much more cheaper wages?

Probably they are gangsters involved in ore ore phone scams.

Creative crooks stay one step ahead
BY MARK SCHREIBER
SPECIAL TO THE JAPAN TIMES


The “Ore, ore” (“It’s me”) fraudsters and their ilk, who telephone elderly people and pretend to be a relative in need of money to help them out of a jam, keep coming up with new scams.

Creative crooks stay one step ahead | The Japan Times


Similar case...Taiwanese and Chinese nationals involved:

Local links to online fraud eyed
Wednesday, September 09, 2015
By KEVIN A. LAGUNDA

THE 69 Taiwanese and Chinese nationals arrested for online fraud in Cebu City have local contacts and were earning millions a day, a police official said.

Chief Supt. Prudencio Tom Bañas, director of the Police Regional Office (PRO) 7, told reporters that the police are now identifying the local cohorts so they can be arrested.

The group duped their own countrymen, he said.

An official of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) described the group as a “transnational telecommunication fraud syndicate.”

“You cannot organize a big operation without funds to support it,” said Bañas.

Police arrested Tuesday 52 men and 17 women in different locations in Cebu City.

Most of them hold tourist visas and are not allowed to engage in any business in the country, immigration officials said.

The foreigners operated in rented houses in upscale subdivisions, while their leaders carried out their operations in Taiwan and mainland China to receive the victims’ money through wire transfer.

Bañas said the foreigners told their landlord that they came to Cebu to study English.

They turned the houses into call centers where they placed several computers, telephone sets and other telecommunication devices.

“The foreigners who allegedly ran an online blackmail syndicate defraud victims in China and Taiwan by duping them into believing that their bank accounts have been involved in money laundering case or in other serious crimes and will persuade their victims to transfer all their money to a so-called ‘security bank account’ of a financial supervision center while undergoing investigation,” the police’s press statement read.

Bañas said the group disguised themselves as employees of a tax and anti-money laundering bureau.

They had researched the background of their victims, who are mostly businessmen.

“They told their victims that their accounts in their banks had been involved in a crime so they are being investigated. Perhaps, their countrymen were afraid so they were forced to share their accounts,” he told reporters yesterday.

After the victims had transferred their money to the account provided by the suspects, the latter cut off their communication with the victims.

The suspects could no longer be contacted and the money deposited by the victims was not recovered.

Before the arrests were made, Bañas received a letter from TECO executive assistant Jerry Chih-Yung Wang last June, asking the PRO 7 to investigate the suspects. They were located after the Internet protocol (IP) addresses were found in Cebu City.

The PRO 7 led by its sub-unit, the Regional Intelligence Division, conducted surveillance for over a month and confirmed their presence in Cebu City.

Search warrants were applied for and were granted by Regional Trial Court Branch 10 Judge Soliver Peras.

Bañas said they will remain vigilant to prevent foreign syndicates from operating in Cebu and other parts of the region.

He added they are enhancing their technical capabilities to monitor illegal activities in the internet. “They thought they can get away with it in Cebu,” he said.

Complaints for violating Republic Act (RA) 8484 (Access Devices Regulation Act of 1998) and RA 10175 (Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012) are being prepared against the suspects.

The foreigners can also face deportation proceedings.

Bañas said the owners of the houses rented by the suspects did not know the foreigners were going to conduct illegal activities.

“They were told that the renters were studying the English language here,” he said.

Local links to online fraud eyed | Sun.Star

 

[yoshi.oda]

It is in our constitution (an economic restriction clause) which prevents FDI, because the upper classes here in the Philippines are afraid of competition, and despite some calls in removing the said economic restriction, our officials do nothing because they are too busy fattening their bank accounts.

What kind policy that????

Probably they are gangsters involved in ore ore phone scams.

Creative crooks stay one step ahead
BY MARK SCHREIBER
SPECIAL TO THE JAPAN TIMES


The “Ore, ore” (“It’s me”) fraudsters and their ilk, who telephone elderly people and pretend to be a relative in need of money to help them out of a jam, keep coming up with new scams.

Creative crooks stay one step ahead | The Japan Times


Similar case...Taiwanese and Chinese nationals involved:

Local links to online fraud eyed
Wednesday, September 09, 2015
By KEVIN A. LAGUNDA

THE 69 Taiwanese and Chinese nationals arrested for online fraud in Cebu City have local contacts and were earning millions a day, a police official said.

Chief Supt. Prudencio Tom Bañas, director of the Police Regional Office (PRO) 7, told reporters that the police are now identifying the local cohorts so they can be arrested.

The group duped their own countrymen, he said.

An official of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) described the group as a “transnational telecommunication fraud syndicate.”

“You cannot organize a big operation without funds to support it,” said Bañas.

Police arrested Tuesday 52 men and 17 women in different locations in Cebu City.

Most of them hold tourist visas and are not allowed to engage in any business in the country, immigration officials said.

The foreigners operated in rented houses in upscale subdivisions, while their leaders carried out their operations in Taiwan and mainland China to receive the victims’ money through wire transfer.

Bañas said the foreigners told their landlord that they came to Cebu to study English.

They turned the houses into call centers where they placed several computers, telephone sets and other telecommunication devices.

“The foreigners who allegedly ran an online blackmail syndicate defraud victims in China and Taiwan by duping them into believing that their bank accounts have been involved in money laundering case or in other serious crimes and will persuade their victims to transfer all their money to a so-called ‘security bank account’ of a financial supervision center while undergoing investigation,” the police’s press statement read.

Bañas said the group disguised themselves as employees of a tax and anti-money laundering bureau.

They had researched the background of their victims, who are mostly businessmen.

“They told their victims that their accounts in their banks had been involved in a crime so they are being investigated. Perhaps, their countrymen were afraid so they were forced to share their accounts,” he told reporters yesterday.

After the victims had transferred their money to the account provided by the suspects, the latter cut off their communication with the victims.

The suspects could no longer be contacted and the money deposited by the victims was not recovered.

Before the arrests were made, Bañas received a letter from TECO executive assistant Jerry Chih-Yung Wang last June, asking the PRO 7 to investigate the suspects. They were located after the Internet protocol (IP) addresses were found in Cebu City.

The PRO 7 led by its sub-unit, the Regional Intelligence Division, conducted surveillance for over a month and confirmed their presence in Cebu City.

Search warrants were applied for and were granted by Regional Trial Court Branch 10 Judge Soliver Peras.

Bañas said they will remain vigilant to prevent foreign syndicates from operating in Cebu and other parts of the region.

He added they are enhancing their technical capabilities to monitor illegal activities in the internet. “They thought they can get away with it in Cebu,” he said.

Complaints for violating Republic Act (RA) 8484 (Access Devices Regulation Act of 1998) and RA 10175 (Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012) are being prepared against the suspects.

The foreigners can also face deportation proceedings.

Bañas said the owners of the houses rented by the suspects did not know the foreigners were going to conduct illegal activities.

“They were told that the renters were studying the English language here,” he said.

Local links to online fraud eyed | Sun.Star

What you shit talking about? You make correlate Taiwan and Japan fraud? The company in Cebu occupy high rise mean they are offshore Japan IT firm in Philippine. You better read this case not make stupid judgment yet Philippine guy.

 

[Cossack25A1]

What kind policy that????

ARTICLE XII
NATIONAL ECONOMY AND PATRIMONY

Section 2. All lands of the public domain, waters, minerals, coal, petroleum, and other mineral oils, all forces of potential energy, fisheries, forests or timber, wildlife, flora and fauna, and other natural resources are owned by the State. With the exception of agricultural lands, all other natural resources shall not be alienated. The exploration, development, and utilization of natural resources shall be under the full control and supervision of the State. The State may directly undertake such activities, or it may enter into co-production, joint venture, or production-sharing agreements with Filipino citizens, or corporations or associations at least sixty per centum of whose capital is owned by such citizens. Such agreements may be for a period not exceeding twenty-five years, renewable for not more than twenty-five years, and under such terms and conditions as may be provided by law. In cases of water rights for irrigation, water supply fisheries, or industrial uses other than the development of water power, beneficial use may be the measure and limit of the grant.

Basically, it says that foreigners can only own up to 40% of the Foreign Direct Investments, thus in order to invest here, they have to go in here with a PH partner company, which will then own 60% of the FDI; this is a no-no for many, thus many foreign investors are looking elsewhere.

Unfortunately, any attempts to remove the economic restriction is countered by fear-mongering by our inept politicians.

 

[yoshi.oda]

Basically, it says that foreigners can only own up to 40% of the Foreign Direct Investments, thus in order to invest here, they have to go in here with a PH partner company, which will then own 60% of the FDI; this is a no-no for many, thus many foreign investors are looking elsewhere.

Unfortunately, any attempts to remove the economic restriction is countered by fear-mongering by our inept politicians.

Partner ship????? Now it explain why many Japanese business in Philippine have Philippine "proprietor partner"?

Or have "Philippine wife" in board trustees?

Shit man you know how joke that is???

 

[Cossack25A1]

Partner ship????? Now it explain why many Japanese business in Philippine have Philippine "proprietor partner"?

Or have "Philippine wife" in board trustees?

Shit man you know how joke that is???

Well not only Japanese, but any foreign investors here must require to have a Filipino partner when investing here. Not to mention the amount of red tapes and bureaucracy involved.

As for Philippine wife, no.

This is why the Philippines lags behind when it comes to foreign investments; the law is too restrictive and the local politicians scare the people whenever the issue of removing the economic restriction is raised.

This is also why many professional and non-professional Filipinos leave the Philippines and go to other countries to find work, even it means going into illegally, thus this news is quite an irony.

 

[yoshi.oda]

Well not only Japanese, but any foreign investors here must require to have a Filipino partner when investing here. Not to mention the amount of red tapes and bureaucracy involved.

As for Philippine wife, no.

This is why the Philippines lags behind when it comes to foreign investments; the law is too restrictive and the local politicians scare the people whenever the issue of removing the economic restriction is raised.

This is also why many professional and non-professional Filipinos leave the Philippines and go to other countries to find work, even it means going into illegally, thus this news is quite an irony.

Sorry man I got angry post to you and other Philippine guy. Just I not approve of arrest that all . Ya sorry I got angry earlier sorry if I post curse word .

Thank for explanation now I understand situation in Philippine

 

[Cossack25A1]

Sorry man I got angry post to you and other Philippine guy. Just I not approve of arrest that all . Ya sorry I got angry earlier sorry if I post curse word .

Thank for explanation now I understand situation in Philippine

It is okay.

Well the Philippine goverment has been dysfunctional since 1986, as the economic restriction policy we have was only applied 1987, leading to a poorer, undisciplined society leaded by decadent and corrupt politicians.

 

[Indos]

It is okay.

Well the Philippine goverment has been dysfunctional since 1986, as the economic restriction policy we have was only applied 1987, leading to a poorer, undisciplined society leaded by decadent and corrupt politicians.

How about your state owned enterprises performance ...?

I believe the only way we can compete with multinational companies are through our strong and big SOE's (state owned enterprises). According to my knowledge, not many private owned enterprises in South East Asia who are able to compete with multinational companies in a liberalized market so they will always try to ask some kind of protection from the state.

If we look into South Korea, they prefer to protect their private owned conglomerates (Chaebols) first in their earlier time before liberalizing their own market later.

 

[Cossack25A1]

How about your state owned enterprises performance ...?

I believe the only way we can compete with multinational companies are through our strong and big SOE's (state owned enterprises). According to my knowledge, not many private owned enterprises in South East Asia who are able to compete with multinational companies in a liberalized market so they will always try to ask some kind of protection from the state.

If we look into South Korea, they prefer to protect their private owned conglomerates (Chaebols) first in their earlier time before liberalizing their own market later.

Well not many SOEs are performing well due to the levels of corruption in the government - one example is the Manila International Airport Authority, which runs the Ninoy Aquino Intl. Airport, which have been dubbed the worst airport in Asia/World.

What's worse is that some SOEs are being privatized, like government hospitals are being privatized and some of the railway transport (which are government-owned) are privatized.

And the local corporations that takes over these former SOEs are the ones that are against the idea of removing the economic restriction.

Well the idea of allowing multinational companies to invest here without severe restrictions is that it would allow the local people to have other choices aside from the ones they got used to, like for example, consumable products.

 

[Huan]

But if there is a mistake on what happened, it could have a negative impact on PH-Japan relations.

Hmmmm. I am not sure whether or not it would affect military cooperation in the short-term and long-term. @Nihonjin1051 @yoshi.oda

 

[Cossack25A1]

Hmmmm. I am not sure whether or not it would affect military cooperation in the short-term and long-term. @Nihonjin1051 @yoshi.oda

Well I am more worried on the economic aspect of the relations between the Philippines and Japan.

 

[JaiMin]

Well not only Japanese, but any foreign investors here must require to have a Filipino partner when investing here. Not to mention the amount of red tapes and bureaucracy involved.

As for Philippine wife, no.

This is why the Philippines lags behind when it comes to foreign investments; the law is too restrictive and the local politicians scare the people whenever the issue of removing the economic restriction is raised.

This is also why many professional and non-professional Filipinos leave the Philippines and go to other countries to find work, even it means going into illegally, thus this news is quite an irony.

Same case in UAE and Kuwait then, you require to have local partners. I think you just need better inspection and supervision system