Foreigners laid off in Japanese downturn

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Foreigners laid off in Japanese downturn

Foreigners who are among the first laborers in Japan to lose their jobs as the global financial crisis eats into demand for cars, trucks and motorcycles. The layoffs are the first evidence that the mushrooming economic meltdown in the United States and elsewhere which is shaking the Japanese labor market. At the core of the trend are hard times for the Japanese car industry. No. 1 producer Toyota Motor Corp and Nissan, Japan's third-largest automaker too is cutting back on domestic production. Most vulnerable to layoffs are the foreign workers who meet Japan's labor shortage as the country ages. Foreigners are often hired through temporary employment agencies, so they can be easily fired. They live in company housing, so they lose their apartments when they lose their jobs. There hasn't been a marked increase in homelessness, but anecdotes of foreigners having to move in with friends or relatives abound. Some foreign laborers have already abandoned Japan amid mounting troubles.

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[novajoke]

@KEBokeh

Yeah thanks to Obama, Toyota's sale dropped in your country but how can you trust BIG 3 after all those years though??  They've been saying we're better than Japanese autos since the late 70s.

I'll stick with my Toyota.

[PyrimidKingJindai]

@jtstreeet man, wrong thing to say, the us does it, so does austraila,

[KEBokeh]

Foreigners and non foreigners have lost their jobs here in the U.S. It's like that all over the world including Japan. For sure I've seen a huge drop in sales for Toyota vehicles here in the U.S. due to issues with Toyota's brake issues etc. People here are buying more American made products...about time! I sold back my Honda and bought me a Ford.

[fox4882]

I'm not foreigners.

I was also laid off.

[astmapiippu]

I think this is right thing to do. Foreigners can go to work in their home countries.

This is so called xenophobia is a good thing, Without it, cultures and nations get destroyed.

[meow23]

why is xenophobic???

[jtstreeet]

Japan is one of the most xenophobic countries in the world.

[codecc88]

Why pinpoint the Japanese? In America and any other country, its the same thing too. Foreigners are always laid off first before citizens so what the hell are these idiots trying to say here? Hypocrites the lot of them. Like as if in their own country they do not lay off foreigners first before the citizens.