日本需要外國工人,但他們會來嗎?

Faced with a dwindling population and severe labor shortage, Japanaims to attract more foreign workers, but a rapidly depreciating yen and lackof rights stand in the way.

在人口減少和勞工短缺的情況下，日本計劃吸引更多的外國工人，但快速貶值的日元以及權利的缺失成了攔路虎。

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"Japan needs to compete for foreign workers against other developed Asian nations -the weakening yen won't make the country any more attractive" said CesarV. Santoyo, a former priest who worked with migrants in Hong Kong before founding SOLS, a non-profit organization that retrains Filipino women living inJapanas English teaching assistants.

“日本需要和其他發達的亞洲國家進行競爭以吸收更多的外國勞工——不斷貶值的日元使得日本不再具有吸引力，”一名非盈利組織的創始人如是說。

The yen has been in a downward spiral since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe introduced a series of fiscal and monetary stimulus measures to spur the economy in 2013. The U.S. dollar is near a seven-year high against the yen, up around 40 percent since Abe took office in December 2012.

自安倍於2013年採取一系列財政和貨幣政策以刺激經濟以來，日本就一直在貶值。美元對日元比率將接近7年來的最高點，自從安倍2012年12月執政以來，美元對日元上漲了40%。

A weaker yen makes yen-based wages less attractive to workers that plan to make remittances to family members backhome.

虛弱的日元使得日元工資對勞工沒有了吸引力，因爲這些工人需要匯款給家裏人。