Employment
Discrimination around employment can be noted as another problem faced.
Such discrimination may be decreasing, but it continues to exist. As previously
mentioned, a lot of Vietnamese people are quite similar to Japanese in
appearance. They may have the ability which is demanded at work, but could
lose the chance of working only because they are not “Japanese”. One female
student that grew up in Japan and continued to study in University went
through the same process of job hunting as other Japanese students, and finally
she found a work. The only difference she had was that she used her alias on
her resume and the procedure went on with her Japanese name. The company later had asked every student to submit official paperwork, and on hers she had
her name in Vietnamese. After the submission, the company denied her saying
that they were not informed about the name. 65 This implies, until the moment
the company find out that she is not Japanese, everything was going well because
she was perceived as “Japanese”. 66 Such events have been occurring in
Japan also for Zainichi Koreans and other non Japanese people who are difficult
to tell the difference by the appearance. In order to secure themselves,
many people use their alias to hide that they are not Japanese, as we have already
seen in the sphere of education.