Japan is hoping to tackle a worsening manpower shortage in its transportation industry by licensing up to 24,500 foreign taxi, bus, and truck drivers by fiscal year 2028. While public acceptance of ...

In Japan’s labour market, an increase in people changing jobs is occurring in the middle of a growing labour shortage, and changing traditional features of Japanese corporate culture such as lifetime ...

The Japanese human-resource service provider Mynavi conducted an online survey of personnel managers in charge of mid-career ...

TOKYO, March 10 (Reuters) - Japan may see corporate bankruptcy cases hit an 11-year high in the fiscal year to March as some firms go under due to a lack of workers, a think tank survey showed, a sign ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about economics, markets and policymaking throughout Asia. No one was arguably more surprised by Shigeru Ishiba being ...