Japan's Halt on New Foreign Restaurant Workers Fuels Urban Influx
Tokyo, Oct. 8 (Jiji Press)--Since Japan stopped accepting new foreign workers in the restaurant industry with the Type I residency status for specified skilled workers in April, rising demand for such workers has driven them to urban areas, exacerbating labor shortages in regional areas. A private-sector survey showed that the number of job openings in the industry for foreign workers with ...