More Chinese computer engineers are coming to Japan via temporary-staff employment agencies, and some of them are finding a niche in the information technology industry, earning as much as 10 million yen a year.
There are no statistics on those coming to Japan under the category of workers brought by employee-leasing companies, but 16,000 Chinese "engineers" were admitted to the country last year.
This represents a 1.4-fold increase from 1997.