The number of foreign workers in Japan reached a new high, underscoring the country’s growing reliance on people from overseas to address its chronic labor shortage.Most Read from BloombergManhattan’s

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Vietnamese workers was the largest group with 570,708 people, up 10.1%, followed by Chinese workers who numbered 408,805, up 2.7%.

Statistics compiled by the Japanese government show that the number of foreign workers in the country hit a record high last year, surpassing 2.3 million.

The number of foreign workers in Japan has hit a record high for the 12th straight year, reflecting severe labor shortages in the country, labor ministry data showed Friday. Foreign workers totaled 2,

Japan had a record 2.3 million foreign workers as of October 2024, marking a 12.4 per cent increase from the previous year, according to labour ministry figures released on Jan 31. The number of businesses employing at least one foreign worker also hit a record high of around 342,000, up 7.3 per cent from a year ago, the report showed.

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Japan pledged to continue its trade and development cooperation with Bangladesh and support the Interim Government of Professor Muhammad Yunus in its efforts to key transitions on Thursday. Newly-appointed Japanese ambassador to Bangladesh,

Chinese actor Wang Xing shakes hands with a Thai police officer after being assisted in his return to the country, after being kidnapped into one of the telecom fraud centers, at a police station in Thailand-Myanmar border's Mae Sot district, Tak province, Thailand, on Jan. 7.

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