Japan largest market for Vietnamese guest workers

Receiving more than 7,100 Vietnamese guest workers in March, Japan is the largest market for this group of jobseekers, according to the statistics from the Department of Overseas Labour under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA).
Japan largest market for Vietnamese guest workers ảnh 1Vietnamese workers check job offers (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Receiving more than 7,100 Vietnameseguest workers in March, Japan is the largest market for this group ofjobseekers, according to the statistics from the Department of Overseas Labourunder the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA).

It was followed by Taiwan (China) with 5,807, the Republicof Korea with 457, and Malaysia with 102. Other markets such as Arab Saudi,Algeria and Romania also attracted Vietnamese workers.

The total number of workers sent abroad topped 13,900 duringthe month, more than 5,000 of them women.

In the first quarter of this year, over 32,300 Vietnameseworkers were sent abroad, or 27 percent of the yearly plan. Of this, 19,000 wentto Japan.

Vietnam has so far sent more than 200,000 workers to Japan,surpassing China in terms of the annual number of workers sent abroad and thenumber of trainees in Japan among 15 countries.

Japanese localities also worked closely with Vietnam inhuman resources development. In mid-March, the MoLISA and authorities of theJapanese prefecture of Chiba signed a Memorandum of Understanding on humanresources development, which will establish a cooperation framework in sendingand receiving engineers, technicians, skilled trainees, and vocational studentsin fields of shared interest.

Chiba Governor Kensaku Morita said there are currently54,000 foreign workers in the prefecture, 14,000 of them from Vietnam. He addedthat local firms highly appreciate the Vietnamese workers’ hard-working spirit,and that is why the prefecture has offered support to help them adapt to thenew life.

The number of Vietnamese workers to Japan is forecast toincrease in the near future thanks to amendments to the draft revised Law on ImmigrationManagement.-VNA

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