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Originally Posted by Samurai Not the usual kind of immigration. This one requires lots of training before you can land a job. |
Thanks for the video. On a personal note, I am getting into this Japanese Language training sector. A little background is perhaps needed. As part of my job in one of the WITCH companies in the early 2000s, I learnt a bit of Japanese. The hours were long, the customers were demanding, language was tough, work was hard, and I couldn't even enjoy any of the numerous business trips to Japan. I wanted to get away from that and so I quit and joined a well-known ERP product company, where my work had nothing to do with Japan.
Flash forwards a decade, during one of the "new year resolutions" periods, I got an itch to do something different; 10 mins of googling led me to a Japanese institute and I restarted my Japanese journey during weekends. Now that I was learning Japanese purely out of interest, with no stress of job or monetary expectations, it was exhilarating. I never looked back. I progressed through the Japanese Language Proficiency Tests (JLPT), including the advanced level (barely
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) at my own pace.
In March of this year, I took a F.I.R.E (Financially Independent, Retire Early) decision from the ERP company to plunge fully into this sector. Baby steps yet, as learning a language is completely different from imparting training. More so, because what I learnt (1000+ Kanjis, complex grammar structures etc) is not necessary for the migrant skill workers. The course content and approach are entirely different. The workers need the conversational skills to be able to handle the situations they would face in their workplace or daily life.
There is a lot of collaboration at the government levels, e.g. Japan's Technical Internship Training Program (TITP) in
collaboration with India's National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and at industry body levels to bridge this skills gap. In my own small way, in the coming years, I hope to address this gap. I am also a bit apprehensive because the expectations from the trainees would be high. They are not in this as a weekend hobby (as I was).
I am sure, I will never earn the salary as before but hoping to find my
Ikigai in this endeavour. All I ask for is the occasional trip within India and to Japan to keep life interesting
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. Wish me luck!!
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JPY is depreciating rapidly against all major currencies. This year JPY has fallen ~10% against the INR. As of today, 100 JPY is only 52.9 INR. Last October, when I visited Japan (as a tourist) 100 JPY was around 58 INR. JPY is predicted to depreciate further. Working in Japan and hoping to repatriate the savings to India is not going to be remunerative. This is huge problem for Japan as foreign workers will not find it attractive enough.
On the plus side, tourism to Japan has become cheaper.