Convenience Store Foreigner

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Convenience Store Foreigner

This is the title of a book that deals with the subject of foreign shop assistants working in convenience stores. The number of foreign shop assistants, who are often students studying abroad, is increasing each year. It is difficult to find Japanese workers due to a labor shortage. The same thing is happening in the restaurant industry in places like izakaya (traditional Japanese pubs).

ほんタイトルたいとる
honn no taitoru
(a) book of (the) title
で、
de,
(this) is (that)
コンビニこんびに
konnbini
convenience stores
de
in
はたら
hataraku
working
外国人がいこくじんスタッフすたっふ
gaikokujinn sutaffu no
foreign shop assistants
ことです。
koto desu.
deals with (the subject of)
外国人がいこくじん店員てんいん
gaikokujinn tenninn
foreign shop assistants
no
of
かず
kazu,
(the) number
とく
tokuni
(who are) often <especially>
留学生りゅうがくせいが、
ryuugakusei ga,
students studying abroad
年々ねんねん
nennnenn
each year
えています。
fuete i masu.
is increasing
人手ひとで不足ぶそく
hitode’busoku
(a) labor shortage
de
due to
日本人にほんじん
nihonnjinn no
Japanese (workers)
確保かくほ
kakuho ha
to find
むずかしいのです。
muzukashii no desu.
(it) is difficult
おなじじことが
onajikoto ga
the same thing
居酒屋いざかや
izakaya
traditional Japanese pubs
など
nado
places like (in)
飲食いんしょく業界ぎょうかい
innshoku’gyoukai
(the) restaurant industry
でも
demo
in
きています。
okite i masu.
is happening

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