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Major rental-housing company Daito Trust is moving forward with plans to open a Japanese-language school in Indonesia and hire its graduates in-house as workers in construction and elderly care. The company plans to open its first campus next spring and add more over time, as one response to a severe labor shortage. On 5ch, a thread on the topic drew a wave of comments over differing attitudes toward work — “They should just hire Japanese people” versus “Young Japanese people don’t want to do manual labor” — and the discussion also turned to the pros and cons of accepting foreign workers and public-safety concerns, with posters citing statistics.
Daito Trust, a major player in rental-housing construction, is entering the Japanese-language education business in Indonesia. The aim is to hire graduates as workers in Japan’s construction and elderly-care sectors, where labor shortages are severe. The school is set to open as early as next spring, with plans to add more locations going forward.
The company acquired a building near the capital, Jakarta, in late October. It will be renovated into classrooms before opening. School operations will be outsourced to a Japanese-affiliated company that already runs Japanese-language schools locally. The company plans to secure two more buildings within the next fiscal year to expand the business, and is also considering eventually running the schools itself.
After enrolling, graduates will spend a year studying Japanese, after which — depending on their preferences — they’ll be hired as carpenters on Daito Trust’s construction sites or as caregivers at nursing homes run by its subsidiary. The plan is for them to gain work experience and build skills in Japan, with an eye toward employment at the company’s local Indonesian subsidiary if and when they return home.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Read the original article here
What people said
They probably will, since it also helps boost occupancy rates in their own rental properties.
Young Japanese people won't do manual labor.
Not quite — it's "they don't want a job that's tough and carries heavy responsibility but pays peanuts."
Why doesn't anyone learn from history?
More importantly, do something about the harassment problem in the construction industry.
In America, a Black man even became president, though.
Serves them right.
That's exactly why I'm convinced we should bring in tons of foreigners and have them do tons of the work.
Anyone who objects can go do the job themselves!
Jack up the unemployment rate and someone will do it.
That's how it's worked for over a hundred years.
That means they'll even handle the kids' Japanese-language education.
The parents will teach them, surely.
That's how it's always been for second-generation immigrants, in any era.
Gen Z would rather become a hermit or go on welfare than do blue-collar work.
It's not welfare, it's becoming a "home security guard" (slang for a NEET who never leaves the house).
That'd be just the same even if you bring in immigrants.
let 18-to-22-year-olds work instead.
Japan's workforce would grow and the future would look brighter.
Kids today, no matter who they are, go to college precisely because they absolutely refuse to become cheap slave labor — working hard forever without being able to save a dime.
Young people who hate both studying and working just go to a bottom-tier ("F-rank") college.
Spending your youth from 18 to 22 doing manual labor surrounded by the Lost Generation and old-timers would be living hell.
You'd regret it for the rest of your life.
We've entered an era where even college grads end up as cheap slave labor who can't save a thing.
That's a total lie.
High school grads have it worse.
Look up "digital Taylorism."
It's already happening in America.
Japanese people are bean sprouts (i.e., weak and frail).
Japan's humidity and heat are brutal.
Even lions die from it.
"Three lions died at Tama Zoo — likely multi-organ failure from heatstroke"
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/17f14ab3d2f748ce994f536f243d099567e60f70
Total lie.
Blue-collar workplace fatalities get reported on the news practically every day too.
Young people have started making rational judgments and no longer fall for the convenient lines pushed by out-of-touch old-timers —
stuff like "working out in the countryside is great!" or "the declining birthrate is a crisis!"
New hire from the low-birthrate generation: "My base pay is 210,000 yen."
Senior training supervisor from the high-birthrate, population-bonus generation: "My base pay is 180,000 yen."
The low-birthrate generation has it easier — less competition and better pay than the high-birthrate generation. Quite a deal.
Like 20th-century Eastern European socialism —
everyone getting poor together, nice and friendly.
It doesn't say blue-collar conditions are improving —
it says white-collar work is getting cheaper.
1. Breaking jobs down into small, standardized pieces
2. Stripping out skill and turning the work into simple labor
3. Cutting costs by leaning on part-time workers
4. Harsh AI-driven evaluation of work that's now fully visible
In short, the job's been redesigned to be as easy as
putting a dandelion garnish on a plate of sashimi —
so there's no reason left to pay high wages for it.
If the pay's about the same, white-collar work wins hands down — light duties, low responsibility, and no risk to your life.
Give it up.
Nobody's going to listen to your voices,
because it's just a fantasy with no actual alternative solution behind it.
Then it's not even a labor shortage —
they just don't need the workers.
Right now that's not being done.
And if one commits a crime after being let in, take responsibility for the victims' compensation for the rest of their lives.
Right now that's not being done either.
Most people committing criminal offenses in Japan are, of course, Japanese, though?
Isn't there a statistic on the rate or proportion or something?
On what basis?
Even in rural areas the crime rate is already double.
How do you think foreigners who've absconded manage to keep living inside Japan?
It's easy enough to imagine they make money by committing crimes.
Huh?
What are you even talking about, makes no sense.
I mean, here in Japan, murders happen close to 1,000 times a year —
that's 2 to 3 incidents every single day, you know?
– [National Police Agency website]
"Crime Situation in Reiwa 7 (2025)"
_ Published February 2026
https://www.npa.go.jp/publications/statistics/crime/situation/r7_hanzaijyousei__.pdf
Last year there were 976 murders.
Add in deaths from assault, negligent manslaughter, and fatal hit-and-runs (dangerous-driving deaths), and that number is obviously more than double.
So why is it that on 5channel, instead of talking about that, threads get made over foreigners shoplifting, stealing crops, or stealing copper wire?
(Needless to say, most shoplifters, crop thieves, and copper-wire thieves are Japanese too.)
Background and Key Points of the Debate
Labor shortages are especially severe in the construction and elderly-care industries, and the hiring of foreign workers through schemes like the Specified Skilled Worker and Technical Intern Training programs has been expanding. Daito Trust’s approach — setting up its own Japanese-language school in a worker’s home country — aims to secure a steady pipeline of workers who can get up to speed on the job quickly, thanks to Japanese-language training delivered locally before they arrive. Within the thread, the view that “they should just hire Japanese people” clashed with the view that “as long as younger generations avoid manual labor, there’s no choice but to rely on foreign workers.” The discussion also touched on crime-rate statistics for foreign workers, but it’s worth noting that such figures can shift dramatically depending on how the population is defined — for instance, whether it covers only visiting foreigners or also permanent residents — so drawing conclusions from a simple numerical comparison alone calls for caution.
*This article is composed as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (News Speed+) thread “[Daito Trust] Enters the “Japanese-Language Education Business” — School to Open in Indonesia Next Spring to Secure Workers, Aiming to Hire Graduates for Construction and Elderly-Care Work.”
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