| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,500,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥2,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥2,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Local governments which are famous for their active actions towards massive immigrated foreign workers are Hamamatsu City in Shizuoka Pref., Oota City and Ooizumi Town in Tomo Area of Gunma Pref. and Gunma Pref. itself
Hamamatsu City, Oota City and Ooizumi Town have a common character to be dominated by big enterprises. In Hamamatsu City, there are Honda and Yamaha, and Oota City and Ooizumi Town, there are Sanyo Electronics and Fuji Heavy Industry. Many subsidiary or keiretsu enterprises related to these big enterprises are operating.
The decisive turning point to these two areas was the revision of Immigration Law in 1990. It opened free gate to Brazilian Japanese descendents to enter and work in Japan. Massive Japanese Brazilians together with other foreign workers flow and settle in these areas to work in subsidiary factories. Thus how to treat these people has become important task for those governments. Hamamatsu City became the first city to be praised by the Minister of Local Governments as "A City opened to the world". Oota City and Ooizumi town are famous for the establishment of good relations between foreign and local citizens.
As well, there are four areas, each of which has unique problems. They are Mogami area in Yamagata Pref. which welcomed foreign brides, Kobe City where they experienced Hanshin-Awaji Great Earthquake, Tsukuba City where many foreigners live as students, researchers, professors and so on, and Okinawa Pref. where they suffer the existence of American military bases. Judging them by the degree of internal internationalization, the most developed is Mogami area and the remains are in the same level.
In case of Mogami area, the acceptance of foreign brides were carried by local governments, resulting the necessity of the later commitment of governments for various cares of brides.
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