{"id":786408,"date":"2026-07-08T06:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T06:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/786408\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T06:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T06:46:11","slug":"japans-appeal-to-foreign-workers-falls-on-low-wages-and-weak-yen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/786408\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s appeal to foreign workers falls on low wages and weak yen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/japan-immigration\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Japan immigration<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Survey shows 83.7% interested in working outside country, with South Korea top choice<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20260708 Vietnamese technical intern trainee\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A Vietnamese technical intern trainee works on an air-conditioning system in Koriyama, Fukushima prefecture. Almost a quarter of Japan&#8217;s foreign workers are from Vietnam. \u00a9 Kyodo<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japan&#8217;s appeal to foreign workers is fading, according to a new survey, with low wages and a weak yen driving many to consider other countries for future job opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan immigration Survey shows 83.7% interested in working outside country, with South Korea top choice A Vietnamese technical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1110,64,63,99,164,37848,35430,38117,29890,4848,152317,1782,175911],"class_list":["post-786408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-appeal","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-falls","tag-foreign","tag-japans","tag-low","tag-wages","tag-weak","tag-workers","tag-yen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}