As of December last year, Japanese authorities granted visa to 1,621 guest workers under the specific skilled workers’ programme, up 7.4 times compared to the three previous months.

Staff at a Tokyo hotel.

More than 90 percent of those guest workers completed the technical intern trainee programme.

Vietnam has the largest number of employees with 901, followed by Indonesia 189, and the Philippines 111.

Vietnam ranks second in number of guest workers in Japan

Vietnam now ranks second in the number of employees working in Japan, according to the latest statistics of Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

Number of guest workers to Republic of Korea increase

(BGO) – The Department of Labor – Invalids and Social Affairs (DoLISA) in the northern province of Bac Giang has completed the health examination and received the application dossiers of 83 labors to Republic of Korea, mostly those passed the Korean language and practice test in 2019 for two fields of manufacturing and construction. 

Job opportunities for guest workers back from ROK and Japan

Vietnamese guest workers who returned home from the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan will be offered with further opportunities to work for enterprises from the two countries at an upcoming job festival in early September.

Focusing on prevention of illegal guest worker

(BGO) – The competent forces in Luc Ngan district, Bac Giang province have recently detected nearly 2,000 labors illegally working abroad.  

Japan largest market for Vietnamese guest workers

Receiving more than 7,100 Vietnamese guest workers in March, Japan is the largest market for this group of job seekers, according to the statistics from the Department of Overseas Labour under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA).

Source: VNA