Japan Pays Foreign Workers to Leave, Then Asks Them to What?

Officials in Hamamatsu, an industrial town in central Japan, describe the plan to encourage Latin American guest workers, who are descendants of Japanese emigrants, to return home Read more: Radio Facts Legacy 30th Anniversary Issue. Rita Yamaoka, a mother of three who immigrated from Brazil, recently lost her factory job here. Now, Japan has made … Read more

Don’t Mind Moving? Best Places to find Work this Spring

I saw this interesting article online this morning Where The Jobs Are, Spring 2009 A quarterly survey reveals the cities expecting the largest employment growth–and losses–across the country. Thanks to last year’s strong harvest of apples and the jobs that followed in juicing, packaging and shipping, Yakima, Wash., has the strongest employment outlook in the … Read more