ABSTRACT
There have been many past studies about foreign labour, especially in the United States and the UK, where numbers of foreign workers have been high. Accordingly, issues they are faced with have been shared. As another essential aspect, cross-cultural adjustment, especially work adjustment, is introduced, in order to understand the fundamental pillars of the book before the empirical data is discussed. One of the findings from past research is that the length of stay in a host country is largely determined by how well foreign labour manages their work adjustment. Given that Japan is well known as a difficult place for foreign workers to adjust to, how important is cross-cultural adjustment in the context of Japan? Though there have been only a limited number of studies in the past regarding this, the issues highlighted in those are discussed.
