日本における外国人女性の就業とライフコースに関する研究

内容の要約広島大学(Hiroshima University)博士(学術)Doctor of Philosophydoctora

The Life Courses about Chinese Women with Higher Educations as Foreign Workers in Japan

The purpose of this study is to analyze the individual attributes and the personal environment of the Chinese women who are with higher educational back-ground and living in Japan as foreign workers and to clarify the working situation and the labor system of their employment in Japan. While grasping the differences of the subjects’ life course, the study also analyzed the constraints that they have to face in their life such as the entrance to a graduate school, the employment, the marriage etc. The study, which adopts a questionnaire method, interviewed Chinese women with higher educations who are working for local companies in Japan. The study demonstrates that respondents desired to access higher education in Japan. Because of their high educational backgrounds, they rather easily obtained employment, even though the labor market still has a gender bias. The respondents possessed a high level of Japanese and majority of them held international business visas. They have their own life track of working due to the inherently economic-social background that they cannot choose by themselves such as spouses’ affairs

Recruitment of Foreign Residents in Japan

International migration, in response to economic globalization, is rapidly increasing in various countries, including Japan. Japan is currently experiencing a serious decline in birth rate, an aging society, and a shortage of labor forces. However, the supply and demand between job-seeking foreigners and job-offering local companies are growing rapidly. Staffing agencies play a mediator role between job seekers and local companies to solve these labor-shortage problems. These agencies conduct their business by carrying recruitment information from local companies to help foreigners living in Japan find employment. This study analyzed recruitment information to understand the working situations of foreign immigrants in the Japanese labor market. In the current study, we first examined an overview of the demographic fluctuation of immigrants in Japan since 1990. We then analyzed the trends which were observed in recruitment information collected from the websites of global staffing agencies

The Life Courses about Foreign Workers in Hiroshima City

Economic globalization has led to the rapid worldwide increase of the mobility of international labor forces and migration to developed countries, including in Japan. Since the 1970s, Japan has been faced with an aging population and decreasing birthrate, accompanied by a severe shortage of workers in both metropolitan and rural areas. Thus, from the 1980s, Japan has allowed immigrants to enter the country to help resolve the workforce shortage. The majority of resident foreigners working Hiroshima Prefecture live in Hiroshima. In this study, we sought to determine their characteristics (e.g., nationality, employment situation and address). We also analyzed the life courses of female foreign workers in Hiroshima by interviews and questionnaires to clarify their personal characteristics and position in the Japanese labor market

Competency of Education for Interntional Understanding: By analyzing Dircke Geography: For Bilingual Classes in Germany

This paper aims to clarify the characteristics of learning units on Education for International Understanding (EIU) and their structure, appropriate geographical teaching materials on EIU, streategies for competence acquisition, and perspectives of ESD within learning units on EIU by analyzing two learning units “Globalisation” and “Global Disparities” in the geography textbook for bilingual lesson ”Diercke Geography: For Bilingual Classes”. The results of the analysis showed that 1)“Globalisation” focuses on the theories of globalisation and “Global Disparities” aims to learn not only theories but also regionl images; 2) Competency is repeatedly acquired through different learning activities ; 3) “Global Disparities” is designed from the viewpoint of “think globally, act locally”

Education for Disaster Prevention in England : Analysis of Secondary Geography Textbooks

The purpose of this study is to clarify the aims, contents and activities of education for disaster prevention on geographical education in England, by analysis of secondary textbooks. Thereby, we want to contribute the improvement of Japanese geographical education. As a result, we clarified the following: 1) when students study a natural disaster in UK, they learn a plurality of cases including domestic and foreign regions, 2) all textbooks contain activities that students can form attitudes and decide what to do for disaster prevention. On the basis of these results, we suggest improvements of education for disaster prevention. The first is to develop a clear understanding of a natural disaster with multi-area including Japan. The second is to place contents and activities for forming a value relevant to awareness of disaster prevention into Japanese geography textbook. The third is to set an activity to learn practical strategies for disaster prevention in the real world

Geographical Contents in Primary School : An Analysis of the English Geography Textbook “Collins Primary Geography”

In this study, we have analyzed the English geography textbook “Collins Primary Geography”, in order to clarify the characteristics of geographical contents in primary school. Results of this study are as follows: age (grade)-appropriate teaching through different process of leaning (awareness, understanding, cognition and value judgement) and physical, human, environmental geography and topography as a content. However, there are no contents across physical and human geography, one of the features of geography, in the textbook.本稿は，2016年度前期開講の地理認識内容学特講（由井担当）の一部をもとに，加筆・修正を加えたものである

The Actuality of Accepting Technical Intern Trainees in Japan and the Reconsideration of the Technical Intern Training Program

The Technical Intern Training Program was established as a formal program in 1993 and was implemented with the "Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act" and related ordinances as its legal basis. The objectives and purpose of the Technical Intern Training Program are to transfer skills, technologies, or knowledge, etc. accumulated in Japan to developing and other regions and to promote international cooperation by contributing to the development of human resources who can play roles in the economic development of those developing region. However, in some situations organizers have deviated from the original intent of the program, so the "Act on the Appropriate Implementation of Technical Intern Training for Foreign Nationals, and Protection of Technical Intern Trainees" was promulgated in 2016 and came into effect on November 1, 2017 in order to establish the protection of technical intern trainees and achieve the original purpose of the program more smoothly than before. However, the "Basic Policy on Economic and Fiscal Management and Reform 2018" has made it clear that the Japanese government has changed its attitude towards the policies on human resources from overseas. The purpose of this study is to make clear about the discrepancy between the Technical Intern Program and the reality of employment situation of technical intern trainees. This study analyzed the geographical distribution and characteristics of technical intern trainees in Japan. Based on these analyses, I reviewed the Technical Intern Training Program in the timing that the Japanese government's policy on human resources from overseas has already been changed to regular labor force in 2018. As a result of this study, the Technical Intern Training Program itself is now a dead letter and ought to be abolished since the original intent of the program has lost touch with reality