A STUDY ON ROLES OF NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS FOR THE SOCIAL ADAPTATION OF FOREIGN WORKERS IN JAPAN

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We have made our research by the following two methods ;The first method is interview research with foreign workers. We often go to Brazilian restaurants and get the precious information over the adaptation of foreign workers to Japanese society.The other is the interview research with Japanese groups to support the lives of foreign workers in Japan. There are a number of such groups in Mie prefecture. We interviewed some of the key persons of such groups.We have taken time perspective into our serious consideration in examining the adaptation level of foreign workers. Our research findings show that the time perspective is very important in all the four actors, i.e., foreign workers, their support groups, residents, and local governments.It is also one of our findings that the quality of support group is vital in deciding the direction of foreign workers, either to the direction of segregation, or to the direction of integration.We also studied on the roles of local governments in this perspectives. There are some important attempts to socialize foreign workers into the system of Japanese society.