By Y. Sellek
This ebook explores the influence of overseas migrant staff on components of sovereign strength in Japan and examines how the country's immigration keep watch over has been reshaped by means of the lifestyles of those staff. It strains the altering scenario of international migrant staff in Japan from the mid Eighties to the current day. a specific concentration is the transition of those employees from 'temporary staff' to 'long-term stayers' or 'social beings'.
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Recently tensions between Japan and North Korea came to a head over the incident of a North Korean rocket having been fired over Japan in August, 1998, and further suspicions that North Korea has been building nuclear weapons and will soon test-fire a Taepo-Dong 2 ballistic missile. Whenever tensions between North Korea and Japan become high, cases of harassment by Japanese youngsters and some right-wing groups against Korean students in Japan increase. Most recently, there have been cases reported of harassment and assaults against Korean school girls wearing the traditional chogori-chima dress, and the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryun) has recommended allowing female students who attend its high schools to wear non-national clothing for commuting to school to avoid such harassment.
The possibility of importing labour was considered initially during the first period of high economic growth in the 1960s, but labour shortages were overcome through seasonal migrations from rural areas within Japan. According to Morita and Iyotani (1994, pp. 189±92), in the 1960s approximately 10 million labourers were supplied from rural areas in Japan and these workers, who migrated from the farming villages, supplied the additional labour needed for high growth: During the period from 1950 to 1975 employees in the secondary and tertiary sectors increased by 10 000 000 and 17 000 000 respectively, while employees in the primary sector decreased by nearly 10 000 000.
3 workers' (Cornelius, 1994, p. 378). , below-replacement fertility rates and rapid population ageing, changing lifestyles, the attitudes of young indigenous workers toward manual work, and the long economic boom prior to 1992. However, there are other intervening factors that transform these conditions into a migration-inducing Historical Context and Evolution 45 situation that need to be taken into account. As mentioned in the Introduction, migrations are collective phenomena which should be examined as sub-systems of an increasingly globalized economic and political system (Castles and Miller, 1993, p.
