TO ease labor shortages linked to its ageing population, Japan is set to embrace 100,000 workers from Indonesia over the next five years.
Japan will see a fourfold increase in the influx of workers coming from Indonesia.
The collaboration will help Tokyo’s labor shortages, as well as Jakarta’s unemployment rate of 5.32 percent, representing about 7.86-M of its working-age adults.
Japan has been inviting foreign workers from other countries to address its labor shortage
In 2019, Japan launched the Special Skilled Workers or SSW program, also known as Tokuteigino.
Meanwhile, the technical interim training program or T.I.T.P. Continues to attract foreign workers seeking entry into the Japanese labor market.
According to a 2022 report by the japan international cooperation agency, the country needs 6.7-M foreign workers by 2040 to sustain the growth rate of the Japanese economy.
And according to the Japanese Immigration Ministry, there were 325,000 foreign workers in the country under the SSW and TITP programs, the majority of them were from Vietnam, followed by Indonesia, and the Philippines.
