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 Beth has a stellar academic background that begins with a Political Science B.A. from the university of Michigan and graduate degrees in the following areas:

·        M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from the University of Illinois at Chicago

·        M.A in  International Relations from Tufts University Fletcher School of Law  

·        Juris Doctor Degree from Boston University.

She has been practicing immigration law since the early 1990s and has worked in Washington state, southern California, Oregon and now New Mexico. Beth teaches legal studies on-line for Kaplan University. In her spare time Beth likes to ski and dance. Beth traveled to Brazil in December and is currently working on her Portuguese. She has traveled and lived in Europe and Latin America. 

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The Road Ahead is Still Dark (part 2)

by: Ken Banks http://bit.ly/h1ZrUE 

I apologize for not making proper introduction on my first posting   Last week we heard from: 
Mr. Jason Ball - Project Manager IT Infrastructure, Consulting at GoodPeople Japan
And from:
Mr. Andrew Brown - Senior Partner at Brown and Takezawa
Washington D.C. Metro Area Government Relations
this week more fuel was added by the auspices of: 
Mr. Tamas Gecse - B.Sc. ITIL / ISMS / JPLT1  
Experienced ITIL/ISMS/Project Management Professional, Japan Management Consulting 
Here is the last part of this blog but please do not feel discouraged to rekindle the fire because I have plenty of mash-mellows in stock to enjoy with anyone who wishes to join and sit by the fire!   

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Tamas Gecse 
Good reporting. The situation is grim, and is getting grimmer by the day. 
The Japanese government must stop firefighting and provide incentives to corporations to retain their operation in Japan. It is the same issue what the US faces with the undervalued Chinese currency.              
Cesar Macher
That is not happening Tamas (firefighting to protect their "amakudari" interests is what they do)... since Junichiro Koizumi's failed economic reforms there has been systematic dumping of young graduates into to the temporary agencies lanes. These days, as reported on the article, 4 out 10 graduate seeking the job market are guided into a low wages future on a ever growing aging society. Manufacturing continues on exodus mode.        
Tamas Gecse  
You are absolutely right Cesar. The japanese people were not represented by a japanese government since the end of world war 2. The japanese government was simply a beneficial segment of society of the hard work japanese people for many decades. The Koizumi government's reforms were not aiming at to improve the life of the hardworking, tax-paying japanese people, but to improve the chances of a continued LDP rule. Koizumi has eventually made the japanese salary-man redundant. He has ensured, that Japan will never be Japan again. I am sadened, that his son is now also in the government (corruption at its best)! Father and son politics reminds me of North-Korea! The damage is done and Japan never will be the same again. Thank you Koizumi family and thank you all time japanese government.                                                 
Cesar Macher
Greetings Tamas, I have made an entry on my blog about the matter; here is the link: http://bit.ly/hOv0V3 . I feature a commentary by Andrew Brown from Washington DC that signals to the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel; he is very insightful and worth reading! I'd be glad if you post your opinion on my blog. 
Have a good day. - Cesar                       
Tamas Gecse  
Hi Cesar! I have read the blog. Indeed very insightful and full of bright thoughts. Yet sadly, I need to disagree with Andrew. 
"While I agree that the transition away from life time employment and early hiring is going to be both painful and protracted I believe that the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel is getting closer." 
I think we are transitioning away from employment itself and not the form of it. (Life-time or non life-time). I think jobs and wealth are migrating to new geographic locations, and they were never ment to stay in one place. With the advent of globalization we have made wealth and job opportunities mobile, and you hear quite often even from politicians that some jobs will never come back. Yes, we are in a tunnel, yes there is light on the end of it, if you are willing to be mobile yourself, and follow the tunnel which ever country it might take you. 
This is a one way process, and as manufacturing and export is one of the greatest pillars supporting the Japanese society, without it I cannot imagine today's Japan. 
What do you think?                                                                     

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Cesar Macher
Thanks for asking where I stand Tamas. I am about to cut the discussion right in the middle between where you and Andrew stand. I hope that by doing that I will not be left standing under the sword of Damocles ready to split me in half for being conciliatory!
What we are observing in Japan these days is the accelerated crumbling of the most powerful manufacturing economy left in the “first world” – (I don’t think I’m too off the mark.)
The manufacturing exodus is so fast and new fledgling service economy replacing the old is so weak that it is not reabsorbing the workforce of thousands who could not catch their planes to follow, as you mentioned, their old jobs to wherever is they went.
Structural unemployment is the fancy word coined by economists that affect thousands of unemployable workers who lack the skills, education, experience, plus a few esoteric Japanese reasons based on age or gender that defines it. Realistically most will not make it back to the workforce meaningfully.
I wish I knew where we are heading for it seems that the manufacturing exodus is damaging the county more that it can take it. The value that justifies mere advantages gained by corporations investing in cheap labor elsewhere cannot longer be understood or measured in terms of return on investment or the bottom line. The world needs to move away from monetary gains as only measure of success… British politicians and intellectuals are talking a lot about “happiness” these days, a serious topic… money will soon be old fashioned!
Returning to our discussion, structural unemployment amalgamates the “structurally unemployable” masses created by the manufacturing vacuum. But what about the 4 out of 10 college graduates who are the ones best honed to succeed in the brave new world of services? Where do we place them, how do we define them? Sardonically, of course, these 40% will effectively end up in the service economy all right; that is, servicing as waitresses, part time office staffers, at gas stations or counters of 100 yen shops full of goods made in sweatshops throughout Asia!
As an optimist I will borrow Mr. Brown’s perspective now and hope that he is right in saying that the new service economy will eventually pick up the slack and produce jobs for everyone who was left behind in the wash. On top of that, I also wish that there will be enough resources left to provide dignified social services for the “structurally handicapped jobless-survivors” of today, who by then would have been aggregated to the aging group category… thank goodness that we are not discussing that today!
Furthermore I will have to rely on faith, (and read my thoughts on that) so that the subsequent governments will selflessly work to embrace policies that increase innovation and the knowledge base required to continue making world class products, and not the Galapagos sort that go no where else, plus the advanced services that will lead Japan to continuous prosperity.              
Tamas Gecse
Cesar, I enjoy reading your post. They are much more insightful, deep-thinking, and enjoyable than most news magazines. You and David (Andrew) B. are some of the few who still know how to write this way. 
Me, I always need to visualize what I am thinking about. As to Japan, I picture a bathtub, in which the water is getting quite old, and many hands pulling its plug. This hands are politicians and profit quizzing corporations. I do not blame them, all of us would do the same in their place. But I don't think that it can end in a rosey situation. 
Jobless aging Japan will need to end in a huge and lasting social change, which will not happen in the usual quiet manner, but with a big bang. On the End there will be simply no where left to retreat for the Japanese salaryman or unemployed carreer-starter just a social upheaval.

The Road Ahead is Still Dark

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Being the father of an almost graduating University student in Tokyo, an article by Ms. Rie Ishiguro of Reuters-Tokyo - caught my attention a few days ago.  

This prompted me to start a discussion at LinkedIn which I named "The Road Ahead is Still Dark". It pertains to unemployment conditions for young university graduates in Japan.  Dismally 4 out of 10 youth are not hired on their first attempt to join the workforce making them virtually not eligible to pursue higher paying careers as they will be stomped by the graduating crowds following right behind.  This follows the traditional mass recruiting practices of university graduates reminiscing from pre-bubble glory of Japan-Inc. that still pervades in the system.  As a result  a student that has fallen once, is virtually doomed to follow the staff-agency carousel of jobs that leads them into an unpromising future of temporary assignments and very low wages. 

The discussion starts with the mentioned article. A this point it has reached a very insightful Analysis made by Mr. Andrew Brown, of Washington D.C.  Here is the transcript of the discussion starting with Ms. Rie Ishiguro’s article on Reuters.

The Article: 

Analysis: Graduates' jobs gloom bodes ill for Japan recovery  - By Ms. Rie Ishiguro TOKYO | Fri Jan 14, 2011 3:18am EST  (link to the article)
Reuters -
While Japan's jobless rate has been coming down from recession-time peaks unemployment among young people remains near record highs -- a bad omen for the economy in desperate need for domestic drivers of growth.
First, Japanese firms' reluctance to hire young workers reflects their pessimism about the home market and suggests no quick turnaround in business investment.
First, Japanese firms' reluctance to hire young workers reflects their pessimism about the home market and suggests no quick turnaround in business investment.
Secondly, those who miss out on a round of graduate hiring risk being shut out of steady, well-paying jobs later on, perpetuating a vicious cycle of weak consumer demand hurting business sentiment, which in turn leads to more jobs gloom.
"Japan has suffered job losses in past economic downturns but never managed to recover them in up cycles, because the all-important manufacturers did most of the shedding as they relocated production abroad but service sectors were unable to create new jobs due to heavy regulation," said Hisashi Yamada, chief economist at Japan Research Institute.
"Given the economy's continued dependence on manufacturing jobs, this vicious pattern may keep repeating, even though the economy is expected to recover modestly in the near term."
At the face of it, the Japanese jobs numbers don't look bad at all.
The headline jobless rate of just over 5 percent would be an envy of most nations, while youth unemployment at just over double that rate also looks OK compared with an OECD average of nearly 20 percent. In Spain, particularly hard hit by the global financial crisis, four out of 10 young job-seekers were out of work last year.
The difference is that the way big Japanese corporations go about hiring makes it extremely hard to recoup jobs lost in recessions during upswings.
SIDELINED
The practice, dating from the glory days of Japan Inc. and life-long employment, is for big companies to hire school-leavers "in bulk" to replace retiring workers and groom in-house talent and the numbers can vary widely from year to year.
Toyota, for example, hired more than 1,500 graduates last year, nearly halving the intake from the year before and plans to cut it further to 1,200 for the upcoming year. The company may offer more jobs later on, but those who missed out on the current round of hiring will have a slim chance to land one because they will get trumped by fresh graduates.
It leaves thousands of young Japanese sidelined in extended studies, part-time jobs or on the dole instead of supporting the domestic economy as confident consumers and productive workers aging Japan badly needs.
The Bank of Japan's "tankan" business survey has shown strong correlation between graduate hiring and corporate investment, both a reflection of firms' long-term outlook.
And jobs data leave little doubt that corporate Japan remains pessimistic about its home market.
The overall unemployment rate has been steadily declining from its record high of 5.6 percent reached in July 2009 and is expected to dip below 5 percent this year, in part thanks to government incentives for companies to retain workers. But in the 15-24 age group, the jobless rate has been stubbornly stuck around 10 percent.
"Today's young generations have never experienced the bubble economy and they are worried about jobs and future," says Mari Iwashita, chief market economist at Nikko Cordial Securities. "They have never grown a habit of spending extravagantly and this further limits room for expansion in consumption in addition to the shrinking population."
And 18 months since Japan pulled out of recession, those about to hit the labor market have little to look forward to.
"Students increasingly start their job searches very early. This is making me anxious and unable to focus on my graduation thesis," said Kasumi Yasuda, 21, who is due to graduate from Doshisha University in western Japan in spring 2012.
It is not hard to see why. Vacancies awaiting university students have fallen to an all-time low, with just over one job offer available for every two candidates graduating next spring.
Admittedly, young Japanese still favor big corporations as employers because of better pay, prestige and perceived job security. But they also have fewer alternatives than, for example, their European peers because of tightly regulated services sector and market rigidities that make it hard to switch jobs or re-enter labor force after retraining.
And there are signs that Japanese employers will continue to shift their focus abroad, meaning more stress for graduates and little chance for a revival of the domestic economy that the ruling Democrats promised in their 2009 election campaign.
A government study last year showed companies expected economic growth to average at a meager 1.3 percent over the next five years and manufacturers planned to bring the share of overseas production to a fifth of total output from less than 18 percent last year.
"You wonder why companies are not making more use of young workers in an aging society," said Hideo Kumano, chief economist at Dai-ichi Life Research Institute.
"But companies apparently feel they should invest more abroad than at home, because their long-term expectations for domestic growth are still on the decline." (Editing by Tomasz Janowski)
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Here are the discussion threads:
Andrew Brown • An interesting story but the reduction in the rate of pre graduate hires may also indicate that Japan is finally moving away from lifetime hiring and towards a more open job market which allows people to be better matched to jobs and allows for great mobility later in ones career. Not to mention a much more efficient use of labor. 
I find the view, prevalent in Japan these days, that any move away from the old way of doing things is a cause for concern very negative. Also you have to look at the total rate of unemployment in Japan right now (5.1%) which is fantastically low for a nation which has been mired in very low growth for over a decade.
Jason Ball • Good points Andrew. 
Might add though that while the move 'away from' lifetime hiring & the graduate program most Japanese are used to could be viewed as a positive thing by many and in some fundamental ways of looking at it, many in this economy might not view it as a good thing, and any major transition may not only be painful & protracted, but be driven initially by the same financial & business factors faced by most countries in the world at the moment & the very factors, possible implications discussed in the article therefore just as valid...
Cesar Macher • Andrew and Jason good analysis I appreciate your input. Indeed the job market is shifting from the old ways and Japan with an “official” unemployment rate hovering around 5% is comparably not as bad as other countries. Yes this brings us some degree of solace. 
However, 4 out 10 young graduates are missing on their "only good change” to a well paid future and that is the reality… and has been like that and getting worse since Junichiro Koizumi failed structural reforms. There is a systematic dumping of youngsters to the temporary staffing lanes driving these young citizens into a future of uncertainty and low wages.
Hideo Kumano, chief economist at Dai-ichi Life Research Institute, who is mentioned at the end of the article, reminding us that the manufacturing incentives to expand abroad is preventing youngsters to fill the needed jobs to sustain an again society. I feel this is only part of the story… you are welcome to shed more light please.
Andrew Brown • While I agree that the transition away from life time employment and early hiring is going to be both painful and protracted I believe that the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel is getting closer. As the shift begins to accelerate away from the older practices new practices are going to take their place. You do see many young people opt out and go for the lower wage short term employment options but then these are young kids and you see this kind of behavior in the US and elsewhere as well and so far it hasn't crashed the economy or doomed college grads who do not instantly find work to a twilight existence for ever. After a certain amount of time employers will pick up these people and they will find their way into more rewarding jobs. Basically put I think that as the Japanese system moves further away from life time employment and towards a more flexible system people will not only be able to find jobs that suit their interests and talents better but also be able to succeed at a higher level since those mid and upper level positions will now be available to them as the jobs won't be only locked into precedence by date of hire. 
In response to Mr. Macher's point the simple economic truth is that it makes no sense to continue isolating the Japanese market in order to maintain industrial jobs that can much more easily be filled for far lower wages by moving them overseas. It is the old argument does Japan need to still keep manufacturing brooms and screws? I would argue that Japan, over the long term, will find much more economic benefit from employing overseas manufacturing to lower the cost of manufacture for labor intensive items and that if Japan can concentrate on updating its manufacturing capacity and move towards a more service oriented stance (both domestically and beyond) those who lose out on making bicycle tires will be able to find alternative employment in other emerging industries. But the transition is always hard (witness the continuing clamor in America over this same issue).
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You are welcome to join the discussion at LinkedIn following this link, or if you wish simply add your point of view below. 

Thanks for reading:

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The ugly side of not speaking English? Indiana’s SB 590 Attacks Immigrants and their Languages

This posting was inspired based on an article I read   dated January 14, 2011  from Hispanically Speaking News titled: “Indiana’s SB 590 Attacks Immigrants and their Languages” - this  is the link 
These words reflect my opinions and are sardonic in tone. They do not intended to insult anyone living or dead. Hopefully you will find this entertaining and and at best humorous.  
Remember though: 
"A joke is a very serious thing".  Winston Churchill
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Being allowed to act on “reasonably suspicious” premises may totally eclipse prejudice; it reminds me of the fascist practices imposed by the Nazis during WWII. 

Please let me know about your thoughts on being questioned to proof your identity on the basis of your looks, that is, on the grounds of being "reasonable suspicious". 
Visible minorities, who are residents of Indiana, should not be afraid these days, you live in the “developed” world and this is the year 2011.  The probability of being questioned because the pimple on your nose is ugly, or because your accent is foreign, or because you prefer to speak in a foreign language is absolutely zero!  Believe me; all officers in Indiana are reasonable except when suspicious.    
If the color of your skin you wear is not within the “norm” it should not be a problem to you either; however, it may be a little controversial (if not illegal) if on top of your color your moves betray you as suspiciously gay!   But now seriously speaking, never mind if your loose apparel reveals you ethnicity or religious believes (touchy subject, mind me writing so small). Don’t worry for any of these totally insignificant stereotypes my dear friendly; minority looking resident of Indiana.  I am absolutely sure that it is still safe to J-walk there! 
One should only be fearful of “reasonable suspiciousness” if you are an innocent white Polish immigrant going through the control gates at the Vancouver international airport… There, the authorities mercilessly greet those of that kind with powerful Taser stun guns! (Robert Dziekanski – RIP Nov. 2007) But then, Indiana is not in Canada and thus one more reason not to be fearful. 
The truth is that legislators in the State of Indiana are reasonable persons and wish to protect your civil rights – they are only after illegal humans and not you. What???? Did I say that right?… illegal humans? – How can it be illegal to be a human? … Trust me there are illegal humans amongst us. There is nothing to hide about it any more. This was on the Wiki leaks cables, but even Mr JA (the big mouth!) had his reservations about going public with this one, but I will not!  
Legislators are mainly concerned about persecuting mutant aliens coming from outer space that look suspiciously human; these are the culprits of all things that go wrong in Indiana, they are dangerous to society, and the world is being invaded as we speak… watch out for them as they are lurking in your neighborhood, and we know for a fact that Indiana is a preferred destination! 
Now you have the real picture and an explanation of the truth,  Please tell the world that you read it in my blog!  If you still want to play it safe, my other best advice for you to evade being singled out in public, is to mind flatulence that smells too spicy – that will certainly get you in trouble, unless of course, you can blame it on someone else! 
Cheers. 
Cesar Macher

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Here is a copy of the article:



"Indiana State Sen. Mike Delph, R- Carmel not only wants to implement a Arizona style bill but wants to bar the use of any language but English in most government transactions.
“We’re taking the handcuffs off of law enforcement. We’re holding employers who are thumbing their noses at the law accountable. And we’re lifting up the English language,” Delph said Friday.
Opposition groups fear the bill will lead to profiling and hurting businesses in the state.
“I’m worried that the unintended consequences of what he’s doing is to put a sign on our state saying we don’t want immigrants,” said John Livengood, co-chairman of the Alliance for Immigration Reform in Indiana, a coalition of groups that want to see immigration reforms left to the feds.
Senate Bill 590 is a thirty page proposal and includes:
-requires state and local law enforcement officers who stop anyone for violating a law or ordinance to ask for proof that the person is here legally if the officers have “reasonable suspicion” that the person is not a citizen or legal visitor
- Businesses that hire illegal immigrants can be shut down.
- Most government transactions, documents and meetings would be in English. The state would shut down their Spanish language portal and printing forms, ballots in other languages
-The state will bill to Congress for reimbursement of all costs for undocumented residents in Indiana.
-No financial aid, scholarships or grants for education at U of I and would have to pay out of state tuition.
- Cities and counties would be barred from limiting the enforcement of federal immigration laws.( No Sanctuary Cities)
According to the Pew Hispanic Center, Indiana was estimated to have 120,000 illegal immigrants in 2009, up from 10,000 in 1990.
“This is going to lead to profiling almost surely,” Livengood , Alliance for Immigration Reform in Indiana co-chair, said. “Our biggest fear—my biggest fear—is that Indiana becomes known as a state where immigrants aren’t welcome.”
Rep. Mara Candelaria Reardon, a Hammond Democrat who is one of two Hispanics in the legislature, agreed.
“While I don’t condone illegal activity, it’s pretty foolhardy to pass a bill modeled after a bill being litigated in federal court,” she said.
The bill has already been promised a hearing in the Senate Pensions and Labor Committee. Ten senators have signed on as co-sponsors, and Delph expects more.
He predicted: “This is going to fly.”

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the article also features on our facebook page, this is what a friend of mine had to say about it:

Oswaldo Trigueiros
It seems the republicans have nothing better to do, than blame immigrants for their failures, so instead of working on positive attitudes to generate employment, better working conditions for their states they sit around and waste their time on coming up onlaws based on prejudice. I guess they should have listened to MLK speech.
I agree everybody should speak english, and not only in the US but everywhere, its the language for doing business, plus we dont any more laws regulating our lives, we have to keep the Govt out of our lives.

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