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Business | Deep Dive Nov 18, 2018

Japan's IT firms enthusiastically open doors to overseas tech workers

by Kazuaki Nagata

The dozens of young Chinese engineers looked nervous, but eager, as they presented their work in English during a hack-athon in September at the high-rise Roppongi Hills complex in Tokyo. But while the event hosted by Mercari Inc., maker of a popular flea market app, ...

Business / Corporate | Deep Dive Nov 18, 2018

Miyazaki finds solution to IT labor crunch thousands of kilometers away

by Kazuaki Nagata

Like many of Japan's smaller cities, Miyazaki has been hit by a growing labor crunch, a trend highlighted by the mere 56.8 percent of high school graduates that chose to remain in the prefecture to work — third-worst among the 47 prefectures. In the hard-hit ...