Japanese owned Companies turning our Filipino workers into overseas leaders

The Philippine workers has long provided Western world with its highly motivated and skilled workers, especially in the fields of back—office, domestic help and nursing services. At present, Japanese owned companies are drumming into the Filipino’s potential technicians and engineers.

Most growing Japanese manufacturers were setting up its "mother factories" in Philippines and dispatching our Filipino engineers as leaders in parts of our world. The mother factories were responsible for the product design and for the standardizing production that will met the specifications and conditions.

Tsuneishi a Philippine based Industries a subsidiary of holdings of Hiroshima Prefecture, has been long working to pass its skills and expertise to our Filipino workers. Tsuneishi Shipbuilding Chief Director Kenji Kawano said its aim to develop THI into a world's mother of all factories.

Since 1994 when they were established in the Philippines, THI has been progressively expanding its industrial unit on the island of Cebu, where it builds mass container ships and other vessels of 30,000 —180,000 gross tons. The number of Filipino workers grown reaching 13,000.

Meanwhile, Toyota Motor was already employing our Filipino workers for the global assignment to address the surging demand of automobiles. In the year 2013, Toyota Motor Philippines, a local unit of Japanese automobile giant, opened the Toyota Motor Philippines School of Technology near Metropolitan Manila, specifically in Santa Rosa, Laguna. The school aimed to prepare Filipino technicians to work in Japanese carmakers' and factories here and abroad.

Upon completion of their two year program in the automobile maintenance and repair, 600 members of the foundational class will be now eligible to land employments as mechanics at Toyota—certified car dealers anywhere in the world. English-speaking Filipino mechanics have been often head hunted by dealers abroad.

One of the main benefits for the Japanese companies in deciding t establish their mother factories in Philippines was the nation's proficiency in English, as it provides common language for explaining the technology. The large available workforce is also an attraction. The population of the country has tapped the 100 million mark and with the average age of 23 years old.

Unlike other Western rivals, Japanese makers focus on Asian nations, such as Thailand and Indonesia, where many subcontractors were already established.