Japan to ease financial burden on Vietnamese migrant workers

Employers to pay half of recruitment costs under new program

20240619 Vietnam

Vietnamese wishing to work in Japan learn Japanese at a local recruitment agency in Hanoi. Vietnamese make up half of all foreign technical interns in Japan.

YUJI NITTA, Nikkei staff writer

HANOI -- The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will work with the government of Vietnam and the International Labour Organization (ILO) to ease financial burdens on job trainees traveling to Japan, according to people familiar with the matter.

JICA and its partners will create a mechanism requiring Japanese employers of Vietnamese trainees to pay more than half the recruitment fees charged by Vietnamese agencies that recruit trainees and send them to Japan.

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