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    The inside story behind Sapporo City's training of Vietnamese bus drivers: "currently 70% of our drivers are in their 50s and 60s, and in 10 years, the majority will be gone. We've already been forced to reduce services...no matter how many times we advertise, we don't get [Japanese] applicants".
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    The inside story behind Sapporo City’s training of Vietnamese bus drivers: “currently 70% of our drivers are in their 50s and 60s, and in 10 years, the majority will be gone. We’ve already been forced to reduce services…no matter how many times we advertise, we don’t get [Japanese] applicants”.


    The inside story behind Sapporo City’s training of Vietnamese bus drivers: “currently 70% of our drivers are in their 50s and 60s, and in 10 years, the majority will be gone. We’ve already been forced to reduce services…no matter how many times we advertise, we don’t get [Japanese] applicants”.

    https://www.dailyshincho.jp/article/2026/05250441/?all=1

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    2. Friendly_Software11 on

      It’s not just money. Of course it’s mostly money tho. But also reputation. Japan has spent decades fostering the image that anything but white collar office work equals failing at life. That’s why everyone is obsessed with going to university. Turns out, if you keep shitting on blue collar workers, eventually nobody wants to do it anymore lol

    3. bippos on

      You can’t demonise blue collar workers when your population is already failing

    5. SlaughterWare on

      there’s a seafood place near me here in Kyushu that’s suddenly become very popular with tourists, and they’ve an enormous red-letter billboard right out front saying “WE ARE RECRUITING! THIS IS AN EMERGENCY SITUATION! HELP SUPPORT JAPAN!”

      It’s a sad situation indeed…