Workers: Guest Workers and Japan

workers: Just don't call it immigration, according to The Japan Times. Japan will allow more unskilled workers to enter temporarily, as companies struggle to fill positions in a country with the lowest unemployment rate among the Group of Seven nations. That the message from Japan, where the number of foreign workers, though still relatively small, has nearly doubled over the past eight years, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ruling party is considering policies to speed up arrivals. Abe has made it clear that opening the nation to permanent immigration by unskilled labor isn't an option, reflecting a historic fear among the Japanese that foreign nationals would cause social unrest and erode national identity. The prime minister often says it not immigration, it guest workers. In Japan, the word 'immigrant' is not used in policymaking, former economy minister Heizo Takenaka said in an interview. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.