I read a news paper article in Japan, regarding of the Filipinos nurses in Japan. From 2007, Japanese government will agree upon the treaty which allows Filipino nurses to work in Japan.
Personally, I do not encourage any Foreign nurses to work in Japan, NOT for Japanese BUT FOR them. I am afraid they will be discriminated by Japanese nurses and others. I do not know how many Filipino nurses are wishing to move to Japan. But if the income is the same, I personally encourage them to work in the U.S. or in Canada, but not to Japan. I personally believe Filipinos will be less discriminated by Americans in the U.S., compared to by Japanese in Japan.
I am Japanese, and it is a good idea to recruit nurses because of the nursing shortage in Japan. BUT after moving back here in Japan, I realized how much Japanese society is closed for non-Japanese.I do not want to criticize my own country, but it is shameful how much the Japanese society almost ignore foreign people. (For example, there are Koreans in Japan whose ancestors were taken for the labor during the WWII. But there are MANY the second and third generation Koreans in Japan who do not have Japanese citizenship yet. They were born and live in Japan. But just because they were not born into Japanese, the citizenship is not granted yet. )
I'm, too, moving to the U.S. soon. The only place that I worked as a nurse is in the U.S.. But I like the living condition there better. Even though the technology in Japan is very advanced, sometimes I feel that the living condition and life style in Japan is 20 years behind from in the U.S.. The medical technology is much more advanced in the U.S., and there are more opportunities for nurses to advance their careers.
This is just my personal opinion. Please do not give me a wrong impression that I try to exclude foreigners from Japan. I believe Japan has to encourage more foreigners to live in Japan and establish the law system. The treaty to recruit Filipino nurses to Japan is one of the government's effort. I completely agree with the government to open Japan for foreigners. BUT the society and Japanese people's mind is still closed.
Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.
no reason to give up hope in working in the US as a nurse just think of it as a delay. If you go through the CP process things will start moving just no telling how long it will take
I spent quite a bit of time to get CGFNS to add that, among other people pushing as well.
a wow a true nurse advocate there.
anyway back to the topic, if im not mistaken, if you want to be a nurse in japan, you have to undergo 6 month language training after that you have to take up nursing classes for a year and then if you make it that far, you ll end up as a "nursing aid" your a nurse but your "rank" is lower than the nurse. And the Japanese's nurse salary is way higher than a foreign nurse. UNFAIR!
got this information from the news. (JPEPA--Japan Philippines Economic Partnership) its a good thing that the senators are giving the Japanese a hard time signing the JPEPA contract.
Silverdragon102, BSN
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no reason to give up hope in working in the US as a nurse just think of it as a delay. If you go through the CP process things will start moving just no telling how long it will take