Only one in four Japanese companies plan to actively employ foreign workers unde...
TOKYO - Only one in four Japanese companies plan to actively employ foreign workers under a new government immigration scheme, a Reuters poll found, complicating Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s efforts to ease the country’s tightest job market in decades.
The survey results underscore the challenge for Japan to cope with its dwindling and aging population that has put pressure on the government to relax tight foreign labor controls. Immigration has long been taboo here as many Japanese prize ethnic homogeneity. But the survey suggests the government may struggle to get the workers it needs to ease the country’s labor shortage where there are now 1.63 jobs available for every job seeker, the most since the beginning of 1974.
Some 41% of firms are not considering hiring foreigners at all, 34% are not planning to hire many and 26% intend to hire such foreign workers, the survey conducted from May 8-17 showed. Under the new law, a category of “specified skilled workers” can stay for up to five years but cannot bring family members. The other category is for more skilled foreigners who can bring relatives and be eligible to stay longer.
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