Labor management, Japan-style:
The dismal assessment of domestic sales by the Japan Automobile Dealers' Association, and anecdotal evidence from overwhelmed job placement agencies in Toyota's heartland of Nagoya, fuelled a growing mood of panic in political circles. Many thousands of Brazilian immigrants have flocked to the Nagoya area to work in the hundreds of factories supplying Toyota; there are similar patterns around the largest plants of Honda and Nissan. Those regions are now in increasing chaos, as entire communities debate whether to stay in Japan or abandon their mortgages and head back to Brazil.
"Guest worker" programs are just so ... swell, don't you think?
