Society
Vietnam's Overstay Fines Reopen Japan's Debate on Foreign Labor
Vietnam published a decree fining citizens 80–100 million dong (about 480,000–600,000 yen) for overstaying illegally abroad, effective September 10. In Japan the news collided with a separate story about foreign workers at delivery firms, and the threads together reignited the standoff between anger at the intake system and the hard reality that logistics, farming, and food plants now run on foreign labor.