Hiroaki Inatsugu, a professor specializing in local government at Waseda University. Local governments are increasingly permitting civil servants to have side jobs in a bid to deal with labor shortages in various industries.
Civil servants allowed to harvest cherries as side job in Yamagata prefecture Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.