So three years ago, she quit to take a job in Japan. A garment factory there promised Ms. Liu three times her $430-per-month Chinese wage, and she hoped to save thousands of dollars for her family, which was growing with the recent birth of a son.
“It seemed like a big opportunity,” she recalled.
Call it an opportunity, maybe, but don’t call it work. Legally, the time Ms. Liu spent ironing and packing women’s wear in Japan is considered “training.” She had entered the murky and at times abusive world of Japan’s technical trainees — essentially second-class laborers brought in from abroad to fill jobs that Japanese citizens aren’t taking.
Just like the United States and other developed countries, Japan has a hard time finding people to pick vegetables, collect nursing-home bedpans and wash restaurant dishes. In America, many of these low-skilled, low-paying jobs are filled by illegal immigrants, an arrangement attacked by President Trump during his campaign.
Japan, on the other hand, long ago achieved what Mr. Trump has promised: It has very little illegal immigration and is officially closed to people seeking blue-collar work.
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我感觉不到你对我的感觉 我却感觉你在逃避 我感觉感情要结束
我感觉你要冷静 我却感觉手足无措 我的感觉是可怕 因为
我感觉你要放弃 我开始感觉不到自己 我试着去感觉你
我得到感觉却是你不要的感觉 我感觉快疯溃 我的感觉是可怕
你走的那天 我感觉好空白 我感觉我真的要投降
我试着去感觉自己 试着不想你 我感觉我到了尽头 无路可退
我没法剖开这感觉 我感觉该走了
1998-1999
Japan limited immigration; Now it's short of workers
