Ochanomizu University: Here where foreign technical trainees filled a vacuum, according to Asahi Shimbun. Satogoken Co., which specializes in assembling scaffolding for construction projects and is based in the city of Iwaki in southern Fukushima Prefecture, has already accepted three technical trainees from Myanmar. Japan thirst for cheap labor using foreign technical trainees has led to charges that it is exploiting overseas nationals, an issue about which Takashi Miyajima, professor emeritus of sociology at Ochanomizu University in Tokyo, has a lot to say. "Although technical trainees are allowed into Japan as 'laborers,' they cannot change jobs if they become dissatisfied with their pay," he said. "Changes should be made to provide the technical trainees with the same wages received by Japanese doing the same work and to give them the freedom to change jobs." The 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that triggered a nuclear crisis created massive public works projects as affected areas sought to rebuild. Reconstruction work in the aftermath of the triple disaster in 2011, coupled with a dire labor shortage, led to a sharp increase in daily wages for those in the construction industry. Satogoken accepted the technical trainees because they can be hired at pre-disaster wage levels. Workers now receive about 15,000 yen a day, when in the past they were lucky to get even 7,000 yen to 8,000 yen.
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