Local News

The Fukuoka Employers’ Association released the results of its questionnaire survey on the hiring practices of local companies, in which only 12% of the respondents said they made a practice of hiring foreign students on graduation. Broken down, the total was 20% for manufacturing companies and 8% for non-manufacturing companies. In addition, 68% of the companies said they had never hired foreign students, and 11% said they had hired them in the past, but aren’t hiring them now. A Keidanren national survey last fall showed that 59% of the companies regularly hired foreign students, showing how Kyushu is lagging.