2019 年 28 巻 3 号 p. 4-10
This study clarifies that the role of foreign workers in Japanese agriculture has become very important both for family farms and for corporation farms. The main type of foreign workers supporting Japanese farms is technical intern and they are now almost more than 10 percent of all employees of farms with higher share of farmers working in several areas where foreign workers are being permitted for kinds of agriculture due to technical intern training program. The current severe lack of labor has made it necessary for Japanese agriculture to accept more foreign workers in different styles among family farms and corporation farms.