About 14 years ago, we started accepting technical intern trainees and also started hiring those with specified skills to make up for the shortage of human resources. We work together every day, not only to improve our work skills, but also to make people feel that it is fun to be in Japan and fun to work for this company. Actually, before we began accepting foreign human resources, many employees felt uneasy due to the language barrier, and some of them were against accepting them.
However, those fears and misunderstandings were quickly dispelled when they started working with them and learned how skilled they were, and now all of our employees trust their abilities. Last year, there was a delay in the entry of foreign human resources hired before the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused difficulties for them as well. Since they were in the food manufacturing industry, we asked them to stay in the dormitory for a month after Japan's quarantine period ended, but we tried to keep in touch with them every day via messaging apps so that they would not be isolated.