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In the era of globalization, the international community has witnessed a rapid increase in the number of low-skilled workers migrating from developing countries to industrial countries. However, there remain competing approaches to the governance of lowskilled labor migration; that is, the economic theory and the rights-based approach. By utilizing the labor migration between Vietnam and Japan under the Technical Intern Training Program (TITP), this article reveals the limitations of these two approaches in governing the migration of low-skilled workers. Moreover, through examining the Memorandum of Cooperation on the Technical Intern Training Program signed by the Vietnamese and Japanese governments in 2017 and its contribution to the TITP, this article suggests that to regulate labor migration properly, it is essential to uphold the rights-based approach and consider labor migration as a transnational issue that should be addressed at the international level; that is, through the bilateral or multilateral instruments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By focusing on the elderly suicide rates, this study lays out the different suicide regulation and prevention policies of three developed countries – Japan, the Netherlands, and South Korea. The main goal is to compare and analyze how these policies, with disparate ways of handling suicide, influence elderly suicide rates in relation with their countries' respective differing suicide determinants. By applying the 'Method for Synthesizing about Public Policies' created by Morestin, Gauvin, Hogue, and Benoit to check the status of efficiency and of any issues of public policies, it concludes that South Korea shows promise, while Japan's suicide rates have certainly been scaling down. Conversely, in terms of the use of euthanasia, suicide rates in the Netherlands have been continuously rising. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on educational credentials and the labor market in Japan. Japan is one of the highly industrialized nations in the world. The idea of the industrialism suggests that, as societies industrialize, the principle of allocation of social positions will shift from particularistic criteria, such as social origins, to universalistic ones, such as education. Japan is often viewed as a highly meritocratic industrial society where there is a tremendous competition for educational achievement and elite positions are occupied by those who succeed in the educational competition . The popular notion that the results of educational competition determine success in the labor market in Japan is referred to as the thesis of educational credentialism or the idea of Japan as an educational credential society . This idea basically implies that the opportunities for education are open to all the individuals in the society and that educational credentials are the major determinant of socio-economic achievement in the Japanese society. A number of empirically verifiable propositions may be derived from this notion of educational credentialism in Japan.