Graduates fall into Japanese labour export trap

Graduates fall into Japanese labour export trap

Many new graduates from Vietnam have become victims of labour export companies, believing promises of careers in Japan.

Vietnamese workers at a company in Japan

Taking advantage of the government’s policy to send graduates to Japan for work, a number of individuals and organisations have begun to use various methods to cheat fresh graduates.

Hao, of Bac Giang Province, just received a degree from Thai Nguyen Medical University. She said that she almost took up an offer to pay USD5,500 and hand over her original degree to a company in Haiphong to register to work as a nurse in Japan, but she felt something was not quite right. After calling a relative, she learned that programme to send Vietnamese students and recent graduates was sponsored the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (Molisa), but it did not require participants to turn over their original degrees.

Many people have sent petitions denouncing the similar fraudulent cases. There are a number of organizations that take advantage of students and recent graduates in this way, however they are difficult to get a hold of, as their “hotlines” are often not active.

Recently, Molisa announced a programme to recruit labourers from 19 cities and provinces for technical training in Japan. After the announcement, many brokers seem to have intervened just in order to cheat labourers. Many people have spent hundreds of millions of VND to brokers who broke their promises. Most have yet to be refunded.

Nguyen Ngoc Quynh, head of the Overseas Labourers Management Department under the Molisa, said that only the centre is allowed to recruit labourers for this particular programme.

Each city and province is permitted to invite 80 individuals. Then they will have join a training programme in Vietnam before being selected for the three-year programme in Japan.

Each labourer should be provided with an annual subsidy of around 90,000 JPY for the first and second year, and 100,000 JPY for the third year.

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