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Kazushi Sato who oversees Vietnamese trainees using welding machines at Hokuto Katawaku Seisakusho, a maker of steel molds to make concrete products, in the city of Koriyama in Fukushima Prefecture.
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They learn fast, and they are more focused than Japanese workers. We can depend on them.
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maybeperhapsyes
Good of this man to say that. There is nothing to be afraid of, foreigners coming here to do an honest days work for a fair wage.
Aly Rustom
Couldn't have said it better myself. Agree 100%
Ricky Kaminski13
Have said it before. It will be a kick up the butt to the army of sunken eyed and listless local youth who will have to compete with this energetic new work force. The differences will be stark and as plain as day. The mendokusai generation are about to be shaken, to the core. Win, win.
englisc aspyrgend
Wait for the howls of “they are taking our jobs”.
Jeff Huffman
Ricky Kaminski13Nov. 15 11:07 am JST Have said it before. It will be a kick up the butt to the army of sunken eyed and listless local youth who will have to compete with this energetic new work force. The differences will be stark and as plain as day. The mendokusai generation are about to be shaken, to the core. Win, win.
While this is undoubtedly true, at what point in school life or employment is being an independent self-starter ever taught or encouraged?
Ricky Kaminski13
Jeff, there’s a few stories of companies starting to break the mould ( deliberate spelling miss! ) , but yes still few and far between. You follow the heard at the expense of everything. The safety in numbers method. Collectivism 101.
Laziness basically.
Jeff Huffman
Ricky Kaminski13Nov. 16 10:03 am JST Laziness basically.
Cultural norms, basically.