Foreign workers in Japan, an essential part of the labor force in the aging country, have been one of the demographic groups most affected by the economic downturn due to the coronavirus pandemic.
While many such workers were fired or furloughed as a result of the economic fallout from the virus, some are striving to empower themselves and improve the situation surrounding their employment.
Among them is a Filipino woman living in Aichi Prefecture — which, according to the Justice Ministry, has the largest Filipino population in the country with 39,339 residents as of late 2019 — who formed a labor union for foreign workers last June.