外国人労働者は日本経済のバッファーであってはならない。

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English Translation

We should not use foreign workers as a buffer against Japan's economic slowdown.

Furigana

外国人(がいこくじん)労働者(ろうどうしゃ)は日本(にっぽん)経済(けいざい)のバッファーであってはならない。

Romanji

Gaikokujin rōdōsha wa Nippon keizai no baffuxa- de atte wanaranai.

Words

外国人 (がいこくじん)

foreigner; foreign citizen; foreign national; alien; non-Japanese

労働者 (ろうどうしゃ)

employee; worker; laborer (labourer); blue-collar worker

は (は)

topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

日本 (にほん、にっぽん)

Japan

経済 (けいざい)

economics; business; finance; economy

の (の)

indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

バッファ (バッファ、バッファー)

buffer

だ (だ)

be; is; indicates past or completed action; indicates light imperative

或 (ある)

a certain ...; some ...

ば (ば)

if ... then; when; and; why don't you...?; the more (one does something); because; since