Young, disinclined to work? 'Camp' awaits The Japan Times / Friday, September 10, 2004
They will stay for three months, keeping to a strict daily regimen, eating together and learning about self-discipline, work ethics and job-hunting.
Welcome to boot camp for the young and out-of-work.
It's the latest idea from the Health, Welfare and Labor Ministry to keep the nation's jobless twentysomethings busy and off the state dole.
Under a proposed plan, the government would spend up to 20 billion yen next year on sending the first 2,000 candidates for training at some 40 designated camps.
