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2026.01.30
When accepting foreign workers, the biggest challenges on the ground are language barriers and differences in work styles. Various issues arise in communication and job training. This article presents the reality of how Host Companies are addressing these challenges, based on survey results.
| Period: | September 3rd to September 19th, 2025 |
|---|---|
| subject: | Companies currently accepting applicants (14,637 companies) |
| Method: | Online survey (multiple-choice format) |
| Number of answers: | 356 Host Companies |
Challenges in communication and job acquisition
Here are some of the challenges we face!
Challenges faced during the acceptance process
*This is a response regarding Specified Skilled Worker at JAC member companies.
Aside from work, some people are worried about whether their concerns are being understood during conversations with doctors at the hospital.
The most common reason cited was "insufficient Japanese language ability." In particular, many companies find the difficulty of specialized terminology unique to construction sites to be a challenge, and this seems to be a major hurdle to accepting new employees.
What was difficult about teaching someone a job?
*This is a response regarding Specified Skilled Worker at JAC member companies.
Surprisingly, a significant number of respondents who answered "No particular problems" were among those who selected "Other."
Here too, about half of the responses cited "language barrier." Clearly, the inability to communicate in Japanese is a major problem, and it seems that if that can be resolved, other challenges and problems will also be resolved more quickly.
Here are some of the things we've come up with!
The most difficult thing about communication
*This is a response regarding Specified Skilled Worker at JAC member companies.
Some expressed concern about potentially dangerous behaviors such as "rushing ahead based on one's own ideas."
For those in a supervisory position, the most problematic aspect is "instructions" not being communicated effectively. The fact that "how instructions are communicated" was the most frequent response suggests that many companies are constantly experimenting with how to best communicate tasks on the factory floor.
Means used for communication
*This is a response regarding Specified Skilled Worker at JAC member companies.
The company also demonstrated its efforts by "trying to incorporate the foreigners' native languages into the conversation."
Approximately half of the responses indicated "using translation apps." There was also a heartwarming response that "employees bonded by watching hobby videos together."
