{"id":12438,"date":"2009-04-23T21:16:24","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T21:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/japan_pays_foreign_workers_to_go_home\/"},"modified":"2009-04-23T21:16:24","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T21:16:24","slug":"japan_pays_foreign_workers_to_go_home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12438","title":{"rendered":"Japan Pays Foreign Workers to Go Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s offer, extended to hundreds of thousands of blue-collar Latin American immigrants, is part of a new drive to encourage them to leave this recession-racked country. So far, at least 100 workers and their families have agreed to leave, Japanese officials said.<\/p>\n<p>But critics denounce the program as shortsighted, inhumane and a threat to what little progress Japan has made in opening its economy to foreign workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a disgrace. It\u2019s cold-hearted,\u201d\u009d said Hidenori Sakanaka, director of the Japan Immigration Policy Institute, an independent research organization.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/23\/business\/global\/23immigrant.html?em\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s offer, extended to hundreds of thousands of blue-collar Latin American immigrants, is part of a new drive to encourage them to leave this recession-racked country. So far, at least 100 workers and their families have agreed to leave, Japanese<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12438\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,201,149,337,597,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-economy","category-japan","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}