Japan Opens Up to Foreign Workers (Just Don't Call it Immigration)
- Number of foreign workers nearly doubles over eight years
- Government looks to admit more without path to immigration
Japan Businesses Open Up to Foreign Workers
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Send us your construction workers, your care givers, your store clerks -- but for a limited time only.
That’s the message from Japan, where the number of foreign workers, though still relatively small, has nearly doubled over the past eight years, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling party is considering policies to speed up arrivals.