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<text id=89TT3356>
<title>
Dec. 25, 1989: Business Notes:Japan
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Dec. 25, 1989 Cruise Control:Tom Cruise
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 69
Business Notes
JAPAN
Help Wanted -- But Not You
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<p> Amid the gravest labor shortage to afflict Japan in 15
years, the Diet has taken a step that could deepen the dearth.
In a vote that critics attacked as a sign of Japanese
insularity, legislators approved a crackdown on companies that
employ any of the more than 100,000 unskilled illegal aliens
from Bangladesh, the Philippines and other Asian nations who
live in Japan. Under the measure, which contains no amnesty
provision for illegal aliens who now hold jobs, firms caught
hiring illegal foreign workers will be fined as much as $14,000.
Employers who persist in the practice could face three years in
prison.
</p>
<p> Supporters of the law argue that Japan cannot provide basic
services such as education and medical care to the unskilled
immigrants, who are concentrated in low-paying construction and
manufacturing jobs that Japanese often shun. But opponents
charge that the crackdown will "push Asian laborers into even
more inferior working conditions and further Japan's
xenophobia."
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</body></article>
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