The Department of Overseas Labor has announced of job opportunities in Japan for nurses and nurse assistants and will be open to receive registrations for the same from September 1-15.
At present, Japan has a high demand for nurses and nurse assistants for salaries between JPY130,000-150,000 (US$1,652-1,906) a month. All applicants are required to be graduates from nursing colleges or universities.
Department of Vocational Training under the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, said that Japan is in dire need of trainees in other fields as well.
At present a total of 18,000 Vietnamese trainees are either working or training in Japan. However, Japan wants to recruit more trainees to work in machinery manufacturing and agriculture processing, production and manual labor in fields.
Japan has expressed hope that Vietnam will improve the caliber of trainees, especially in learning foreign languages, so as to be able to send larger number of trainees to Japan.