Globarizing Japoanese business and young Japanese workers abroad

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23401038
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Human geography
• Research Institution: Kanazawa University
• Principal Investigator: KAMIYA HIROO 金沢大学, 人間科学系, 教授 (40192546)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): NAKAGAWA Satoshi 神戸大学, 経済学研究科, 准教授 (10314460) ; ABE Yasuhisa 九州大学, 比較社会文化研究院, 准教授 (10362302) ; KUWATSUKA Kentaro 龍谷大学, 経営学部, 准教授 (40346466) ; NAKAZAWA Takashi 明治大学, 経営学部, 専任教授 (70404358) ; YUI Yoshimichi 広島大学, 教育学研究科, 教授 (80243525)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 海外就職 / グローバル化 / 日本企業 / 現地採用 / 日本人の若者

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In order to examine the reason why young Japanese prefer to work abroad, field survey was conducted in Shanghai, Bangkok and Dusseldolf. The findings are summarized as follows: 1)Deteriorated economic conditions placed younger Japanese in worse working environment, 2)Development of personnel placement service made young people easy to find jobs in oversea countries, 3)Japanese MNCs are less localized, and have strong labor demand for Japanese speaking workers, 4)As for the human resource management, Japanese MNCs in oversea countries have less discriminative hiring policy with respect to gender and age, Japanese women feel more welcomed when working abroad.

Free Research Field

人文地理学