Indonesian nurses face up to Japan culture shock http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUST341538
Fri Aug 8, 2008 By Isabel Reynolds TOKYO, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Dressed in brightly coloured batik shirts, many with headscarves, 200 Indonesian nurses and care workers have arrived in Japan, the first of up to a thousand to be employed by short-staffed hospitals and homes for the elderly. Those backing the recruitment of foreign health workers say this will help bear the burden of care in the world's fastest ageing nation, but the linguistic and cultural hurdles the nurses face are daunting in a country where immigration is a sensitive issue. http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUST341538 _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
