The Japanese government on Monday suspended the acceptance of new foreign workers in the restaurant industry under a program ...

Japan stopped accepting “specified skilled” foreign workers for the restaurant industry on April 13, forcing companies to ...

Amid a labor shortage in Japan, the number of foreign workers rose above 2 million for the first time in 2023. A report published by the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare shows that the number of ...

As Japanese companies try to tackle their labor shortages, the number of foreign workers in the country has risen to a new high of 2.3 million. As of October 2024, foreign workers in Japan totaled 2.3 ...

TOKYO -- A Nikkei survey found that a majority of economists believe the increase in the number of foreign residents in Japan will enhance the country's fiscal balance, driven by their tax and social ...

Foreign workers in Japan hit a record high in 2025, totaling 2.57 million as of the end of October, up 11.7% from the year before, as the country suffers from an acute labor shortage due to a ...

Peiying Chua, head economist for Asia-Pacific at LinkedIn, has said that in the age of artificial intelligence, “you protect the worker, you protect the talent; you don’t protect the job itself.” Her ...