Japan: HELP unWANTED

[Taro Toporific]

Help wanted, foreigners need not apply
Asia Times / Oct 22
....Increasingly, there are calls for foreign workers in agriculture and in dying, uncultivated rural areas. The great irony is that agriculture is one of the most heavily protected industries in Japan, and some elements of the farmers' lobby are now considering using foreign laborers from many of the countries that government tariff barriers are designed to shield them from.
....But where there is a will there is a way, and if the Japanese public remains unconvinced about letting in an influx of foreign workers to make up for its graying workforce, then the people flow can always run the other way. The Philippines and Malaysia have gone on the offensive and started wooing Japanese retirees to spend their sunset years in their Southeast Asian countries, marketing their proximity to Japan, their lower living costs and their many willing caregivers who work for very little.

[Skankster]

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When I went to Yamanashi via highway bus a few weeks back
getting off the bus going to toward our campsite we walked past a field full of foriegn workers.
Thai or likely Filipina women. Farm worker types - not the hostess type.

Then walked around further and at the interchange/offramp there was about 5 hostess bars from each major Asian country.

So my interpretation is: the asian workforce is already there.

[Taro Toporific]

.. likely Filipina women. Farm worker types - not the hostess type....
So my interpretation is: the asian workforce is already there.

My Rice Ranch is so useless that my friends in Manilla cannot convice their cousins/friends to even visit the farm. The word is out -- city Filipina want nothing to do with toy-farms in Japan. Meh.

[aquamarine]

And slightly OT but where might one 'visit' afforsaid ranch? (Just as another experience in Japan)

[Big Booger]

This weekend I am going to help my wife's father in 4 tambos. Ode to farming.

[Taro Toporific]