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Foreign workers in Japan up 6.8% in 2001.

Publication: Japan Weekly Monitor
Publication Date: 31-DEC-01
Format: Online - approximately 216 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
TOKYO, Dec. 25 Kyodo

The number of foreign workers in Japan totaled 221,121 as of June 1, up 6.8% from a year earlier for the ninth straight annual rise, Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said Tuesday.

Direct laborers came to a record 130,440, up 8.3%, of whom male workers...

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