ABSTRACT
A prim twenty-one year-old with a perpetual smile, Yumi is quick-witted, energetic, and thus, one would think, eminently employable. But the Japanese job market, tough for a young woman in the best of times, has been downright forbidding in the past few years of economic slow-down. So Yumi has ventured to multilingual Singapore to improve her job prospects, betting that foreign language skills will raise her chances.
