2018年12月1日

What should we do to get along with the foreign workers?

Topic 1Change your life.
1- If you can change only one thing in your life, what do you want to change?
Eg. Another university or company, should not have got married, should not have said good-bye and so on.


2- If you can select totally different life, like "将来の夢 at elementally school, what do you want to be?


3 - If you can obtain a special skill for your hobby, what do you want to do?
Eg, Want to win Tokyo marathon, have a private concert of your piano.


4- Please share your skill which you want to be proud of.

Topic 2 Accepting more foreign workers.
An amendment to the immigration control law with the aim of accepting more foreign workers is being discussed in the Diet. It is really challenging for us, because we have very long history of a racially homogeneous nation and the langues barrier is quite serious issue.
At present, no guide line has considered about the minimum level of Japanese lnguage which foreign workers should have.
The law is considering to allow only the people of having a certain level of expertise and skill to come in, in order to prevent from hiring the none skilled people with the low wedge.

Agenda) What should we do to get along with the foreign workers?

1) What are the purpose and the benefit of the law?


2) What are the possible risks or problems of working with the foreign workers?
・Religous issues such as praying many times during working hours.
・I believe the langues barrier is quite serious issue.
・Any others?


3) How can we get along with the foreign people? How can we solve the risks and problems which we discussed at Q2?

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/11/14/commentary/japan-commentary/impact-accepting-unskilled-foreign-labor/#.W_F-uOj7TIU