As Japan s population declines, the country has been quietly bringing in more foreign workers, with the number of foreigners comprising 2.4% of the total population or just under three million people. Faced with a post-Covid labour dearth and retirees departing the labour force, the crunch is growing tighter, with 85% of eateries saying they suffer from a lack of part-time employees, while nearly an equal amount of hotels say the same about full-time workers.
Imagine a farmer in India earning more than a techie capable of working at Infosys! Not likely right? Well, the same is apparently not the case in Japan. Venkatasamy Vignesh, a techie from Tamil Nadu quit his stable job at Infosys and took up brinjal farming in Japan. Watch this Visual Story to know the full story.
Japan's unemployment rate in February rose 0.2 point from the previous month to 2.6 percent, worsening for the first time in five months, as more people sought better working conditions amid an economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, the government says.
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