• Trainee housekeepers attend practice in Manila in December before heading to Japan to work for staffing company Pasona Group Inc. While the presence of foreign workers and residents is growing, their perspectives have been largely ignored in the campaigns for Sunday's Lower House election. | BLOOMBERG
    Trainee housekeepers attend practice in Manila in December before heading to Japan to work for staffing company Pasona Group Inc. While the presence of foreign workers and residents is growing, their perspectives have been largely ignored in the campaigns for Sunday's Lower House election. | BLOOMBERG
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Despite the growing influx of foreign workers and residents in Japan, their perspectives have been largely ignored ahead of Sunday’s Lower House election, according to the director of a nonprofit organization that supports immigrant children and youths in the country.

Iki Tanaka, whose youth support center has helped some 600 children and adults from 26 regions learn Japanese, says more must be done to help new arrivals integrate.

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