Word: aomori
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...survey by the Women's Association for the Better Aging Society, nearly 60% of elderly patients prefer to be cared by Japanese caregivers. Even Nakayama, who is looking forward to welcoming his new staff, says, that "kerchiefed Indonesian women will stand out" in his rural area. Police in Aomori visited his facilities after they heard Nakayama would be employing non-Japanese workers. "Most foreigner labor in Japan has been in the manufacturing. Now they'll be more visible," says Wako Asato, associate professor of sociology at Kyoto University. "It'll be challenging...
...program has been a welcome change for Tatsumi Nakayama, who works at the elderly care home Michinoku-so in Aomori, a 4-hour train ride from Tokyo. Unlike companies in more urban areas, Michinoku-so hasn't yet had difficulty keeping a full staff, but they know that they could. "Applicants for our jobs are decreasing every year. What would happen after five years? It's very bleak," says Nakayama, a 25-year veteran of the industry. That's why the company decided to hire two Indonesia caregivers through the new national program. "I believe there are many things...
...Still, the new program, however small, has given some beleaguered workers hope. Aomori's Nakayama says, "Yes, it costs us more money and more work, but it's worthwhile." The world will be watching...
...visit to Japan, one section of the Japanese people got their first chance to express their feelings on 1) how they felt about the new U.S.-Japanese security pact, and 2) Premier Nobusuke Kishi, whose Liberal Democrats had approved it. The vote took place in relatively remote Aomori prefecture, which is coincidentally the site of one of the largest U.S. Air Force bases in Japan. There Liberal Democrat Governor Iwao Yamazaki was running for reelection. His Socialist opponent went all out to argue that a vote for Yamazaki was a vote for U.S. bases, for Kishi, and possibly...
Japanese pundits viewed the results with caution. While Yamazaki has been an able governor with a strong popular following, the election took place during the planting season, and the turnout was only 62% of the voters. But at the least, the Aomori election was strong evidence that the frenzied mobs that had snake-danced around the Diet for days on end (another 25,000 turned out on call last week to demonstrate against the pact) were not the expression of some deep country-wide revulsion against Kishi's policy of alliance with...