Japan to ease financial burden on Vietnamese migrant workers

HANOI -- The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will work with the government of Vietnam and the International Labour Organization (ILO) to ease financial burdens on job trainees traveling to Japan, according to people familiar with the matter.

JICA and its partners will create a mechanism requiring Japanese employers of Vietnamese trainees to pay more than half the recruitment fees charged by Vietnamese agencies that recruit trainees and send them to Japan.