Those uppity Chinese workers . . . in Japan!

Pair of Economist stories.  First one is on how restive Chinese workers in China are changing the management practices of Japanese companies there--not easy to do.

Key point: 

The labour-market troubles are an aspect of China's shift from being the world's workshop to its shopping mall: as employees demand and get higher incomes, the country's attractiveness as a manufacturing base ebbs but its appeal as a consumer market grows.

Remember that as you calculate the Chinese economic "threat" in coming years.

Second story notes how badly Chinese worker-trainees in Japan are treated and how they're already turning to suicide to voice their concerns (those Chinese, they never do anything half-way).

Says Lila Abiko, of the Lawyers' Network for Foreign Trainees:

Japan is the richest country in Asia, yet this programme is exploiting poor Chinese like slaves.

Japan better clean up that act as its population ages . . ..

Ah, the joys and sorrows that is Asian integration!