To be a trainee? You can endure so much hardship. Now in China, as long as you endure half of the hardship, you will definitely earn more money than in Japan. Find out what a trainee is, and then calculate how much money you can have left over from food and drink, compared with how much money you can have left from the same job in China, and then make a decision.
Recently, the Japanese Diet is discussing a judicial reform that may allow foreign workers to engage in manual labor in Japan on a long-term basis. The bill, called the "Foreign Workers Act," aims to change the long-criticized "trainee system" and is still being considered by the House of Representatives.
Many people will think of "graduate student" when they hear the word "trainee", but the difference between these two words is that their identities are completely different.
Graduate students are students studying abroad and need to apply for a study visa. In Japanese, there is no word "graduate student". Japanese calls it "graduate student". "trainee" is the Chinese character in Japanese. The project began in 1981. The original intention of the Japanese government was to strengthen international cooperation, transfer Japan's advanced technology to developing countries, and promote the economic development of the "trainee"'s home country. The project lasted one year. . However, as Japanese society gradually ages and the labor force becomes scarce, and Japan lacks an open labor market, the trainee system gradually evolved into a disguised form of labor importation. In 1993, the Japanese government established the "trainee system". The "Technical Internship System" was established in 1999 and has been revised many times. According to the current system, workers in Japan can be converted into technical interns after a one-month transition period as trainees, and the contract period is usually three years. In principle, they cannot return to their home country midway.
Legally, technical intern trainees receive equal pay for equal work as Japanese nationals, but in practice, most technical intern trainees (regardless of their jobs) are only paid the minimum wage in Japan. .
In addition, it is difficult to guarantee the treatment of trainees. For a long time, a considerable number of civil rights lawyer groups have been active in Japan, taking pride in seeking justice and filing labor insurance lawsuits for trainees. According to reports from these lawyer groups Materials provided by the Japanese court show that more than 80% of companies in Japan do not pay overtime wages in accordance with legal provisions when accepting trainees, and some even deduct basic wages; there are even cases of deducting basic wages, illegal overtime work, and even sexual harassment of female trainees.
Not only that, students living in poor living conditions are also the key groups involved in public security and criminal cases. In October this year, a murder case occurred in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. Two Chinese female trainees living together were involved in the crime. There was a conflict over trivial matters, and one of them killed the other and then absconded. Since such vicious criminal cases rarely occur in Japan, when Brother Yu went to Japan in November, local TV stations were still broadcasting follow-up reports on the case. This incident also played a big role in Japan's determination to introduce the "Foreign Labor Law"
This trainee system has long been criticized by the outside world, and some British and American media simply called it a new era. "Slave labor". However, what puzzles many people is that workers from some countries around Japan still flock to such cruel exploitation. According to Japan's NHK statistics in 2016, 70% of trainees in Japan are from China. The probability of trainees staying in Japan for various reasons after their three-year period is very high. More than 3,000 people stay in Japan illegally every year.
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Once upon a time, Di Renjie, like many people, had a hard time understanding this. But a chance encounter and communication with his trainee brother in Tokyo in 2016 made Rui Di completely change his mind. They calculated the pros and cons of going to Japan or staying in China to work much more carefully than us outsiders.
When Yu Di met Xiao Gu, he was only 22 years old, but he had already been working in Japan for two and a half years. I was a trainee who had been working in a factory in Yamanashi Prefecture. He was on vacation at the end of 2016 and was about to leave Japan. He wanted to go to Tokyo one last time. Yudi happened to have a bird's-eye view of Tokyo and met Mount Fuji and Tokyo Tower. he.
When we first met, Rudi thought he was an overseas student or a tourist visiting Japan, because his dress and demeanor were so different from his domestic migrant worker brothers - wearing a jacket, travel shoes, and a Hanging Canon DSLR camera. Later, as we became acquainted, Gu explained to me that he bought his SLR camera from a second-hand store for only one-third of his monthly salary.
Unlike some veteran students who saved all their money, he thought the camera was not expensive, so he bought it.
Due to privacy issues, it is not convenient for Teacher Gu’s photo to be published here, so I will just post a photo of Mount Fuji that he took for me. Maybe it’s a new camera and he doesn’t know how to use it yet. This photo was obviously not taken well.
Not only are the lines different, but the spiritual temperament is also different. I have also met some migrant worker brothers in the countryside, and I always feel that they have an innate sense of difference and wariness towards "city people", and it is very awkward to get along with them. But I felt very comfortable when communicating with Xiao Gu and Yu Di - he obviously regarded me as a young man like him, and we had a great chat. Yu Di asked him about his experience. He said that his family came from a rural area in Zhejiang Province. He graduated from junior high school but did not enter high school, so he randomly enrolled in a technical school and studied for a few years. After graduation, a relative in the countryside invited him to go to Japan as a trainee. His parents were hesitant at first because they would have to stay in a foreign country for three years. At first, he didn't go and went to another relative. He worked for five months at a well-known large-scale mobile phone accessories assembly factory in China. Because he couldn't stand it anymore, he resigned from the factory and handed over to an agency. With more than 20,000 yuan, I embarked on a life called studying in Japan but actually working.
As for the work in Japan, Xiao Gu said that he was quite satisfied - although he was definitely not as happy as the agent said before. What satisfied him most was the good treatment. Japan’s minimum wage varies from place to place, and has risen to 1,000 yen (approximately 60 yuan) per hour in Tokyo. In Yamanashi Prefecture, the minimum wage is actually no less than 800 yen (approximately RMB 48) per hour, but Gu’s factory still privately pays interns 600 yen (approximately RMB 36) per hour. But even so, Xiao Gu can still get about 300 yuan for a day's work, and his salary for a single working day is more than 6,000 yuan. Taking into account the overtime pay on Saturdays and Sundays, his monthly income is 2 yuan at home. times. Some of his colleagues work very hard and earn tens of thousands of yuan a month. Japanese people in the company would occasionally take them to team-building events and outings. Gu Xiaodong said that it was during these team-building activities that he decided to buy a SLR camera because Mount Fuji is really beautiful.
After visiting Tokyo Tower, Yudie wanted to have a meal with compatriots from a foreign land. Gu Xiaofan said no, his trip to Tokyo ended today, and he had to catch JR back to Yamanashi in the evening - the Shinkansen in Japan was too expensive, and he didn't want to take it, so he could only take an ordinary JR back. When saying goodbye, he also gave me the Tokyo travel guide he bought. "This place is really beautiful, brother, take your time and stroll around.
"What do you want to do after the new year? Go back to your hometown? Or do you want to cheat in Japan? "The moment he picked up the manual, Rene's brother asked him jokingly. I thought he would smile and say no, no, no, but unexpectedly the young man hesitated: "To tell you the truth, brother, I'm still thinking about it. Hacking this issue is actually possible. "
I was embarrassed when he said that. We exchanged QQ messages, and I said that I would come to Japan often in the future. If he really turns black in the future, maybe we can still meet.< /p>