6 posts tagged “filipino”
I watched the Tagalog movie "Anak" at last. The film was created in the year of 2000, ok, this isn't latest movie for sure, but after I finished watching the movie I found this is a remarkable film.
I guess the background of this film might not be understandable for many Japanese, but personally I myself really enjoyed this movie. Fun? Of course it's not Hollywood fun-fun-then-happy-ending type movie, but I prefer the films with something meaning or message.
Although I don't have my own kids, never in real life, I felt I was Carla's father while I was watching the film, and wondering how would I do if I was her dad really.
It was expected to be started already, several hundreds Filipino caregivers would be here in Japan to work and to be trained for Japanese language, local custom, laws and regulations. And both of the Philippine and our government are hoping that they Filipino caregivers will remain here for long.
To our nation Japan, it would be so helpful to supply a gap caused by decreasing labor force (birth rate has turned to negative already since the year of 2006 in Japan, yes, many of Japanese women don't wanna have children today) if we could invite caretakers from the Philippines. And of course, it would be good also to the local labor issue in the Philippines, to it would be chances to Filipino people to have more job opportunities.
In the EPA (Economic Partnership Agreement) between the Philippines and Japan, there are many strict conditions for delopyment and acceptance of Filipino caretakers. But the most tough one must be language. Under the related laws of this project, Japan requires Filipino caretakers to study Japanese language for 6 months after they arrival. I know many of them are studying Japanese language already in the Philippines, but I bet it would be not enough in their jobs here. I wonder why our government thought and decided 6 months would be enough.
In our daily lives here in Japan, especially non-private/casual communication such as in business, "I can read and write both of Katanata and Hiragana" is definitely inadequate. Some Filipino ex-entertainers who have been living in Japan work as caretakers at nursing homes here, but in most cases they (both of those Filipinas and their employers) are facing the serious problems. Yes it's about language or communication between elder people there or its staffs.
Since the most of those ex-entertainers have been living here in Japan for long, they speak fluent Japanese, wouldn't have problems for communications with Japanese people. But once when they need to write or read something memos or papers written in Japanese, they would be in trouble.
This happened some nursing homes specialized for Japanese old and retired people built in the Philippines too, some of those facilities were introduced in local medias sometimes, but as far as I know none of them have succeeded. Those older people are lonely, being away from their family, children and relatives, and they don't speak foreign language at all. Such nursing homes always say in their brochures and such that "we have Japanese speaking staffs" but those are just advertising and not enough to make them old Japanese grandfathers and grandmothers not to be lonely.
Here's another story. According to laws (of Japan) for the project say that those Filipino workers should pass the national license test of caretakers within 4-6 years (duh I don't remember how many years...). By passing that test (and have that national license), he/she will be able to remain to work in Japan for more. That's one of Japanese government's expectations for sure, they hope Filipino caretakers to settle, not as temporary workers or seasonal employees.
Besides, their hope won't be realized at last I think. I guess many of those Filipino caretakers won't prefer to settle here in Japan. Then what will happen? They will come here to Japan just as migrant workers. And that's not Japanese government expect anyway. Then our government should develop additional systems for them more, such as "giving citizenship or permanent visa if he/she has been working" like in Canada. Oh yeah, of course Philippine government doesn't want them to be Japanese citizens, though.
As a final note, some other countries' governments push ours to accept caretakers from their countries, the Japanese government might change in policy to invite/accept Filipinos if it won't work as they expected.
It has been over years since when I enjoyed chatting on IRC last time. It's fun to meet new people and talking to friends online. Besides, I've seen too many of idiots and freaks at such chat places on the Net, everytime I met those asses I was about to quit chatting. It would be fine to kick their butts hard really if it happened in real life, but it's impossible just because it is thing happens online.
Earlier today, I connected to the IRC server (I don't describe which IRC network was here), then joined few channels that I used to keep sitting often before. I couldn't find anyone among regulars at those channels whom I knew, this means I became older maybe.
Since I'm old enough now, I think I know it's better not to give a damn to those assholes, I was just watching my chatmates getting mad at those rude chatters in channels, and told her/him "calm down..." Or, I just didn't know that he/she enjoyed teasing brainless childish (real kids huh?) chatters. If so, saying "calm down" might be just my OSSEKAI. And I don't like chatters who ask me "asl?" thingy. Is this because I'm an old guy now? LOL
Few days ago, it was not IRC, I was trying to install some programs on my PC. When I finished installing Gaim (multi-protocol support chat program), someone sent me a msg suddenly. I couldn't recall his nick at that time, but soon he started to call me my old nickname on IRC. I found he's one of my old fellow chatmates! And he told me his dad is sick now.
I met his parents few times, and it's been a long time since I stopped hearing from them. He also thanked me about Linux CD which I sent him years ago, said it's very useful to study about computers, I'm glad to know that. Yeah he was a college student when we used to talk a lot almost everyday.
I'm not sure when will I visit the Philippines next time at this point, but the list of that I should visit in the Phils becomes longer again.
Yappari it was good to chat on the net, it made me to have really nice friends I guess....
Tabeta~~~~i!!!
