Posted on 04/22/2009 6:41:27 PM PDT by Steelfish
Japan Pays Foreign Workers to Go Home
Franck Robichon for The New York Times
Latin American workers at a town hall meeting in Hamamatsu, Japan, where officials laid out a plan to pay workers to return to their home countries.
By HIROKO TABUCHI
Published: April 22, 2009 HAMAMATSU, Japan — Rita Yamaoka, a mother of three who immigrated from Brazil, recently lost her factory job here. Now, Japan has made her an offer she may not be able to refuse.
The government will pay thousands of dollars to fly Mrs. Yamaoka; her husband, who is a Brazilian citizen of Japanese descent; and their family back to Brazil. But in exchange, Mrs. Yamaoka and her husband must agree never to seek to work in Japan again.
“I feel immense stress. I’ve been crying very often,” Mrs. Yamaoka, 38, said after a meeting where local officials detailed the offer in this industrial town in central Japan.
“I tell my husband that we should take the money and go back,” she said, her eyes teary. “We can’t afford to stay here much longer.”
Japan’s offer, extended to hundreds of thousands of blue-collar Latin American immigrants, is part of a new drive to encourage them to leave this recession-racked country. So far, at least 100 workers and their families have agreed to leave, Japanese officials said
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Can we pay for Obama to go back home?
LOL!
Reckon that’d work here?
Would Hose-A and Hose-B go home?
Well the Japs were always racists anyway.
Maybe we should use some of the BILLIONS of taxpayers dollars on the table to pay illegal Mexicans and others to go South to build a massive fence system, and then let them exit for good (maybe give SOME of them a chance to come back legally) when its done.
No.
I wonder if they would pay me not to go to Japan and work.
I’d be willing to settle for half of what others are getting.
Actually, I’ve proposed this for the illegals before. Give each $4000 cash to go home, with severe penalties of hard labor if they return. Total cost if all 12,000,000 took them up on it, only $48 billion. Reduces unemployment and helps Mexico deal with the returning influx.
Sure, less people. That will fix their problem.
Good post- agree.
There goes their strenth, (ahem) diversity.
lol...
Cutting muscle to save a bit in the short run. Ten years from now they are going to regret this.
I see a problem looming...
You’ve named a problem with the welfare state - which is wholly under the control of domestic Americans, not immigrants.
Given that the Japanese are a case study in how not to run a country, we shouldn’t be in a hurry to emulate their policies.
Last time they had a labor shortage, they invaded Manchuria.
I don’t know that I agree with that - The Japanese have had a fairly stable society, for a few thousand years.
Is it ideal? No. Does it work? Well, sort of. The Koreans would say NO!
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