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Originally Posted by sarasi
I am not sure where you are getting this info from, but I know a lot of foreigners who work in IT and finance in Japan, and none of them are in the situation you describe. They are all either full time contract employees or seishain. For eikaiwa teachers and ALTs the 29.5 hour work week so that the company can avoid paying into shakai hoken is common, but not in other fields in my experience.
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I'm guessing the hours from the monthly pay, Japanese law states that foreigners must be paid the same as a Japanese working for the same position. A Japanese engineer working full-time for a reputable company is going to make much more than 200k yen per month. A part-time position will pay in the neighborhood of what the OP has indicated.
More and more companies are saving money by hiring part-time staff, or subcontracting through temp agencies, entry-level, full-time positions are becoming more and more scarce.