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An outbreak of a pandemic left Nguyen Ngoc Nga’s study in Japan unfinished. – NHK screenshot
Trieu Linh Linh, a Vietnamese student in Niigata province, dropped out of school three months ago because he could not afford the tuition of 750,000 yen / year, or about 7,000 US dollars. Linh applies for a part-time job at a packaging factory in hopes of a pandemic soon.
The 24-year-old student once intended to find a steady job in Japan after graduation to help support her parents at home. But now Linh couldn’t pay the rent and looked towards Vietnam in pain.
All because of COVID-19.
NHK, a major Japanese television station, has an article that reflects the plight of Vietnamese international students trapped in this country. The difficulty of international students like Linh, according to NHK, comes from the strict regulations of Japanese law.
By law, student visa holders like Linh can work 28 hours a week. But if these people are no longer in school, expelled from school, or for whatever reason they are no longer students, they will not be allowed to work outside.
If you do not want to break the law and your family situation does not allow it, these international students should leave Japan as soon as possible.
“Parents at home fear that if this continues, I will starve to death in Japan. But I don’t want my family to have more debt,” Linh confided to NHK. “I want to deal with it myself, but there are a lot of vague things that worry me.”
Another case caught was Nguyen Ngoc Nga in Okayama province. Nga was fired by the school for failing to pay enough tuition fees and asked to return home immediately. The 21-year-old student raised 21,000 yen to buy a plane ticket, but the flight was canceled at the last minute.
Vietnamese international students make up a quarter of the 310,000 international students in Japan. NHK contacted the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan and learned that some 20,000 Vietnamese citizens were waiting. OK repatriation.
The Vietnamese government has organized flights to rescue citizens of Japan, but due to the large number and priority of special cases such as the elderly, pregnant women, the sick, there are still many people. can return to the country.
Meanwhile, several international students in particular and Vietnamese trapped in general have received help from the Vietnam-Japan Mutual Assistance Association. Ms Yoshimizu Jiho, a representative of the association, said that since March this year it has counseled more than 1,300 Vietnamese in Japan and provided accommodation for 180 people who lost their accommodation.
Last october, The Japan Immigration Office has relaxed regulations, allowing international students forced to drop out of school due to the pandemic to work as they did during their school days, allowing them to continue living in Japan. When I can go home
But according to her Yoshimizu, such loosening of regulations is good but not enough.
“Many Vietnamese students are still forced to drop out of school. The Japanese government should take drastic and more permanent measures, for example to improve the scholarship system instead of temporary easing.”
