“Always more for ever less”
: this could be the slogan of Japanese migration policy.
'Ever more'
: A report released Friday by a group of state agencies, including the highly respected JICA and DBJ, estimates that Japan will need 4.2 million foreign workers by 2030, and 6.7 million by 2040, to support its growth.
The foreign active population being 1.7 million today, the report calls for its quadrupling in less than twenty years.
“Ever less”
: Japan has been facing a chronic labor shortage since 1997. In twenty-five years, the 15-65 age group has shrunk from 87 to 73 million souls.
It should be reduced to 60 million in 2040.
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