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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT)

 

JAPAN LABOR REVIEW

Volume 7, Number 3, Summer 2010  

 

  Special Edition: Current Situation of Japan’s Foreign Labor Policy
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/JLR.htm
or
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/JLR/documents/2010/JLR27_all.pdf
[full-text, 151 pages]

 

    *   Introduction

             Ryo Kambayashi

 

    * Articles

 

The Current Issues on Foreign Workers in Japan             

Masahiko Yamada

 

Labor Law and Policy Issues Relating to Foreign Workers in Japan      

Chizuko Hayakawa

 

Concerning Revisions in the Foreign Trainee and Technical Intern System       

Hiroaki Watanabe

 

Impacts of International Migration on the Labor Market in Japan         

Jiro Nakamura

 

 10% of Companies Recruited Foreign Students in the Past ThreeYears: JILPT Survey on Recruiting of Foreign Students        

Masato Gunji

 

The Economic Crisis and Foreign Workers in Japan: Why Does Japan Treat Migrant Workers as Second Class Citizens?            

Kiyoto Tanno

 

 

   * Articles Based on Research Report

 

School-to-Work Transition and Employment of Youth in Non-Metropolitan Areas      

Yukie Hori

 

    * JILPT Research Activities

 

           

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