Japan highly values Vietnamese trainees’ skills

Japanese agencies and businesses highly value Vietnamese trainees for their skills, work ethic and abilities.

This assessment was made by a delegation from the Party’s Central Committee Office after visiting Japan to conduct a survey of Vietnamese workers, including trainees.

During the visit from May 26-29, the delegation, headed by Duong Thanh Bac, Deputy Director of the Party’s Central Committee Office, met with the Board of Management for Vietnamese Guest Workers in Japan, the Association for Development of International Manpower for Small and Medium Enterprises (IMM Japan) and several leading Japanese businesses such as Asama Piston Co. Ltd, the Maruoka Furniture Company and the Marine & Engineering Shipbuilding Company.

The Japanese business community, however, pointed to the poor Japanese language skill of the Vietnamese trainees and their limited ability to adapt to the Japanese cultural environment.
Bac expressed his thanks to the Japanese agencies and companies for the high-quality training they provided to the Vietnamese trainees as they will be able to serve the national industrialisation and modernization. He said he hoped that the Japanese Government would take more Vietnamese workers and help them to integrate into life in Japan.

Vietnam has so far sent 40,000 trainees to Japan since 1992 under a training and technical education programme. They have been trained at small and medium enterprises, mainly in garments and textiles, electronics, engineering, construction and fisheries, at an average salary of between Ú$700-1,000 per month.
As well as the programme, Vietnam has also sent people to study and work in Japan’s IT sector. So far, nearly 1,000 engineers and technicians have worked in the country. ( Business News)