HÀ NỘI — With a rapidly aging population and declining fertility, Japan had to adopt a more open-door approach towards foreign workers to staff its labour-strapped industries, with Vietnamese workers among the fastest growing groups.
According to Nguyễn Gia Liêm, deputy head of Việt Nam’s Centre of Overseas Labour (COLab) under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, in 2015, there were 27,010 Vietnamese workers sent to Japan, but in just two years, the number doubled to 54,504 in 2017.
Currently, there are about 126,000 Vietnamese trainees and apprentices working in Japan, making Japan one of the main recipients of Vietnamese ‘exported’ labourers.
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