Japan immigrationJapan to ease financial burden on Vietnamese migrant workers
Employers to pay half of recruitment costs under new program
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.