Japan expects to take in 820,000 skilled workers from overseas over the coming five years, sharply expanding previous projections to address growing labor shortages, sources said. The figure is ...

Around 65 percent of companies in Japan employ foreign workers to resolve labor shortages, a government survey showed Thursday. In the multiple response survey, 56.8 percent of companies said ...

Each industry will set standards of Japanese language proficiency and require foreign workers to pass a test before changing workplaces. In principle, transferring between workplaces has not been ...