Japan Holds Briefing Session in Hanoi on Resident Status

Hanoi, Jan. 22 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese embassy in Hanoi held an explanatory session on Tuesday on new resident status and related systems in Japan, in response to an increase in disappearances and crimes by Vietnamese technical trainees and students. "There are people who exploit the dreams and hopes of young people both in Vietnam and Japan," Kunio Umeda, Japanese ambassador to Vietnam, said, calling for would-be Vietnamese workers in Japan not to pay unfairly high commission fees to malicious brokers. It was the first time that the Japanese embassy in Hanoi has held an explanatory session on the matter. The embassy hopes that the lecture will help eliminate malicious brokers in both countries by spreading accurate information at a time when hopes for labor participation from Vietnam are growing in Japan amid the aging of the population ahead of the enforcement of the revised immigration control law in April. The lecture was joined by some 70 people, including Vietnamese students hoping to go to Japan and their parents, as well as brokers. END