More firms recruiting foreign graduates

Companies wanting to gain a competitive edge in the global marketplace are looking to hire foreign graduates of Japanese universities, especially those from China. And students are eager to grab the opportunities, with the number of foreign students after graduation who changed their visa status to work in Japan in 2005 nearly double that of 2002………..Foreign students from Japanese universities also make up about 10 percent of the entire intake of new hires at the company's overseas subsidiaries in China and elsewhere. "We can't do without the international viewpoint in order to manufacture and market products that pass muster around the globe," a recruiter for the company said. [View Full Article]