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Farms struggling to attract Japanese workers, utilizing ‘unauthorized’ foreign labor

  • December 1, 2025


Farms struggling to attract Japanese workers, utilizing ‘unauthorized’ foreign labor

by diacewrb

12 comments

  1. Farming is labor intensive and low paying compared to other occupations. Farming is vital but not many young people are enamored enough to make it their career.

  3. Is it slavery with extra steps? Or is it serfdom?

    All the talk about restricting the gaijin when we do literally all the dirty work and the undesirable stuff that the young generation of pure bloods deem unworthy.

    I dunno hopefully they realize that they need the gaijin and have to stop being xenophobic.

    Copying the MAGA playbook is the dumbest most racist shit ever.

  4. The farm hands around here are mostly young foreigners or elderly Japanese. JA even promotes a “silver worker” program for seniors. I hate seeing the foreign workers out in the fields during heavy rain, people joke about them like they’re choosing to stand in a downpour, when in reality they’re being told to keep working. It really is modern-day slave labor, and everyone pretends it’s normal.

    My prefecture has a set standard of ¥10,000 per day. This is why Japanese don’t work on farms. 

  5. Companies were busing the training visa and exploiting foreigners waaay before this sadly

  8. Sounds like the old Ojisans in government want a famine instead of making farming a year round thing with a stable income paid by the government.

  9. I’m sure it’s just like america. Scream about getting rid of illegals, wait, not my illegals

  11. What they’ll end up doing to solve their growing ag problem is start to import even more foods from the very same countries these people working on the Japanese farms are coming from.

    And then Japan loses a little more food security, and won’t see the problem until it’s too late.
    When a major climate event limits food access in some of these countries they’re already importing from, they’ll realize real quick that imports aren’t always guaranteed, even if contracts are written.

  12. Japanese people think foreigners want to work in Japan even if low pay because they think foreigners love Japan

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