(VOVWORLD) - More than 200 student nurses have been sent to Japan to work under the Vietnam-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement, bringing to 1,900 the total number of Vietnamese nurses sent to work in Japan since 2012.
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Tran Thi Van Ha of the Department of Overseas Labor of the Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs said, “They will have 2 months to get accustomed to Japan before they begin working for an intern’s salary of 1,500-1,700 USD per month. Once they earn a Japanese certificate, their salary will be higher.”
The students are sponsored for a year of free language training and accommodation by the two Governments.