National Apr 8, 2021
The rising figure is believed to reflect an increase in the number of people holding the visas.
National / Crime & Legal Feb 22, 2021
An Osaka-based company and its owner have been accused of hiring Vietnamese who overstayed their visas because they were unable to return to their home due to the coronavirus pandemic, investigative sources said Monday. Police referred those involved to prosecutors without detaining them on suspicion ...
Film Dec 21, 2020
Film spotlights Vietnamese temporary workers' plight in Japan
by May Masangkay
When director Akio Fujimoto's "Along the Sea" reaches theaters nationwide next spring, he hopes the plight of Vietnamese temporary workers depicted in the film will show the exploitative reality their like face in Japan at times. A co-production with a Vietnamese film company, the movie ...
Issues Nov 28, 2020
Remote Nagasaki island 'getting energy' from Vietnamese students
An island suffering from the effects of depopulation has offered Vietnamese students a discount to study Japanese there.
National Nov 9, 2020
Vietnamese trainee nurses arrive in Japan after coronavirus delay
Negotiations are taking place with Indonesia and the Philippines to expedite the arrival of candidate health workers from those nations, too.
National Nov 2, 2020
Japanese police suspect Vietnamese group stole hundreds of pigs
Police suspect involvement of a group of Vietnamese behind the disappearance of hundreds of pigs and chickens, as well as thousands of pears and peaches, from farms this year in eastern Japan. In connection with a series of suspected thefts of livestock and fruits in ...
National Oct 22, 2020
Eased work rules are lifeline for foreign ex-students stuck in Japan
by Osamu Tsukimori
While a decision this week by immigration authorities didn't make big headlines, it was a ray of hope for thousands of students keen to work and unable to return home.
National / Crime & Legal Dec 17, 2019
Vietnamese suspect shoplifted ¥28 million in goods from drugstores across Japan, police say
A Vietnamese woman arrested in September on suspicion of theft had shoplifted around ¥28 million ($256,000) worth of goods at numerous drugstores in Tokyo and nine other prefectures over the past year, police said Tuesday. The police suspect that 21-year-old Nguyen Thi Phuong Uyen stole ...
Issues | THE FOREIGN ELEMENT Sep 15, 2019
The Vietnam Temple offers spiritual and practical support to Japan's Vietnamese community
by Maya Kaneko
A yellow-colored Buddhist temple adorned with flags and golden dragons on its pointed roofs in a quiet town outside Tokyo presents a stark contrast to the typically somber-looking Buddhist places of worship usually found in rural Japan. But the steady stream of out-of-town weekend visitors ...
National / Social Issues Mar 29, 2019
Vietnamese nun in Tokyo prays for compatriots who lost lives at work in Japan, fearing more to come
by Kwiyeon Ha and Linda Sieg
Rows of wooden mortuary tablets inscribed with names line an altar at a Buddhist temple in Tokyo — silent testimony to Vietnamese people who died after coming to Japan to work or study. "Whenever I am contacted about a death, I can speak only two ...
National / Social Issues Apr 1, 2016
2015 saw 13% surge in foreign students in Japan, aided by more Nepalese and Vietnamese
The number of foreign students enrolled in Japan rose 13.2 percent in 2015 from the year prior, with a dramatic increase in students from Vietnam and Nepal, according to data from the Japan Student Services Organization out Thursday. According to JASSO, an independent administrative body ...