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Japan’s provinces lose international students, with radiation fears

Trainees steer clear of Tohoku / Radiation fears apparently behind sharp drop in foreign interns, The Yomiuri Shimbun, 5 Dec 11 The number of foreign trainees in the disaster-affected prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima has nearly halved since the March 11 disaster, with many apparently afraid to return to the Tohoku region due to radiation fears.

According to the Justice Ministry’s Immigration Bureau, the number of trainees in these prefectures has plunged by about 2,000 from about 4,500 at the end of last year.

The three prefectures had 2,249 non-Japanese with “technical intern training” status as of the end of September–999 in Iwate Prefecture, 341 in Miyagi Prefecture and 909 in Fukushima Prefecture. The status of residence for technical trainees was newly established last year….

 

According to the International Training Cooperative Organization, which helps operate the training program, about 80 percent of the trainees come from China.

The organization said radiation fears stemming from the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant prompted many trainees’ relatives and Chinese agencies involved in the program to ask that the workers be allowed to return to their home country.

About 6,000 of the 21,000 Chinese trainees in six prefectures in the Tohoku region and Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures are believed to have returned to China by the end of April……http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T111203003382.htm

December 5, 2011 - Posted by | business and costs, Japan

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