Subject: Japan Becomes Major Importer Of Asian Labor
Date: Published: 3/9/92 (33 lines)
Source: Wall Street Journal. Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc.

    Japan Becomes
    Major Importer
    Of Asian Labor
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    More and More Foreigners
    Are Expected in the '90s
    Despite Social Fallout
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    By Masayoshi Kanabayashi
    Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

    TOKYO -- Long-insular Japan, dogged by persistent labor
 shortages in some key industries, is becoming a significant
 importer of workers from elsewhere in Asia.

[101 lines irrelevant to AIDS removed.  -- sysop]

    Last year, several Japanese newspapers reported widespread
 rumors that would-be foreign rapists were targeting Japanese
 women.  Some local communities, according to the papers,
 circulated notices among residents to be on guard against
 foreigners.  And in a city northeast of Tokyo, a local beauty
 salon caused a stir when it refused to accept foreign
 customers.  The salon's proprietor reportedly hung a sign on
 the door saying the step was a "precaution against AIDS."

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