Yes. The current temp worker program is neither being used for what it was intended (an internship program for students) nor to alleviate the worker shortage. It's basically a scam benefiting cheap companies and the middlemen who bring them workers. Farms are the example they always use to demonstrate the worker shortage - and I think some of these people in the video would never do farm work no matter how much you paid them - but the "open secret" of the temp worker program is that they bring in foreigners for ANY job, like restaurant and assembly-line workers. Those are things that Japanese would definitely do for the right pay and those jobs are being taken by the foreign workers. It's ridiculous.
Yes. The current temp worker program is neither being used for what it was intended (an internship program for students) nor to alleviate the worker shortage. It's basically a scam benefiting cheap companies and the middlemen who bring them workers. Farms are the example they always use to demonstrate the worker shortage - and I think some of these people in the video would never do farm work no matter how much you paid them - but the "open secret" of the temp worker program is that they bring in foreigners for ANY job, like restaurant and assembly-line workers. Those are things that Japanese would definitely do for the right pay and those jobs are being taken by the foreign workers. It's ridiculous.