少於20%海外技能實習生重返日本

Late last month the NHK News on-line reported the following:
東日本大震災で大きな被害を受けた岩手、宮城、福島の３県で働く海外からの技能実習生は、震災から１年近くたった今も、震災前の半数以下にとどまっていることが分かりました。
これは、技能実習制度を進めている国際研修協力機構が、先月、東北地方や茨城、千葉の８つの県にあるおよそ３０００社を対象に行った調査で、明らかになったものです。
それによりますと、このうち岩手、宮城、福島の３県の実習生の数は合わせて２００５人と、震災前の４８．９％に減少しています。
震災前に比べて、実習生が最も減ったのが宮城県で、震災前の２７．０％の人数にとどまっているほか、福島県は５５．９％、岩手県は６１．８％となっています。
これは、震災後に帰国した実習生のうち、日本に戻った人数が２０％にも満たないためで、沿岸の水産加工会社などの復旧が遅れ、実習生が戻れないことも背景にあるとみられます。
一方、国籍別に見ますと、中国人の実習生は大幅に減っていますが、ベトナムやフィリピンからの実習生は増えている県もあり、被災地の企業からは「ベトナム語の教科書を送ってほしい」といった相談も寄せられているということです。
国際研修協力機構の佐田通明専務理事は「中国だけでなく、ほかの国からの実習生を増やし、多様化を図らざるをえない」と話しています。
(試譯文)
Technical skill trainees who had returned from overseas to work again in the three prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima that had suffered from the serious damage due to the East Japan great earthquake remained below half of what was before the earthquake disaster at this moment of just about one year after the earthquake disaster.
This was made clear by the Japan International Training Cooperation Organization which was promoting the technical skill training system. Last month they had conducted an investigation in about 3000 companies located in the Tohoku district and in the eight prefectures such as Ibaraki and Chiba.
According to it, the number of the trainees in the three prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima had decreased to 2005 people in total, or 48.9% of what had been before the earthquake disaster.
Compared with before the earthquake disaster, it was Miyagi Prefecture that the number of trainees had decreased most, it stood at 27.0% of figure before the earthquake disaster; also Fukushima Prefecture was 55.9% and Iwate Prefecture was 61.8%.
Among the trainees who went back after the earthquake disaster the number that returned to Japan did not reach 20%; because of that, the recovery work of the coastal fish processing companies etc. was overdue, and it was expected that trainees' failure to return could serve as the background.
If to see it according to nationality, the number of Chinese trainees had decreased sharply; but on the other hand, there were prefectures that had an increase in number of trainee from Vietnam and the Philippines, and discussion about "wish that you could send in Vietnamese textbooks" was noted in the companies in the stricken area.
Japan International Training Cooperation Organization Representative Director Michiaki Sata was saying that "Not only from China, the trainees from other countries must also be increased, else diversification cannot be attained."

It will be a long way for Japan to totally recover from the 3.11 disaster.