Japan will lower visa threshold and recruit nearly 50,000 foreign workers.

Japan is a highly developed country with an amazing high-tech industrial base. However, due to the aging and declining birth rate, Japan urgently needs a large number of foreign workers. Therefore, next year Japan may lower the visa threshold and recruit 50,000 people. Let's introduce it in detail below.

According to Japanese media reports, recently, the Abe government of Japan decided to implement a new policy to expand the scale of foreign workers from April next year, that is, it is expected to receive about 260,000-340,000 foreign workers within five years to cope with the labor gap of 1.30- 1.35 million. Among them, the Japanese government predicts that the labor shortage in Japan will reach 600,000 in 20001year, and the maximum number of foreign workers will be 47,000.

In order to refine the plan of accepting foreign workers, the Japanese Ministry of Justice has submitted to the Japanese Parliament the specific scale of accepting foreign workers involving 14 industries. At the same time, the Japanese government will continue to discuss the impact of the introduction of foreign workers on Japanese people in their industries and the improvement of Japan's employment system.

These industries accept the most foreign workers.

In the next five years, among the 14 industries that Japan is about to expand the scale of accepting foreign workers, the nursing industry accepts the most, reaching 60,000; Followed by the catering industry, with 53,000 people; The third place is the construction industry, with 40,000 people. In addition, industries that accept foreign workers include agriculture, building cleaning, machinery manufacturing, electronics, shipbuilding and automobile maintenance, aviation, fisheries and so on.

In 2008, among the foreign workers expected to be accepted by the Japanese government, agriculture accepted the largest number of foreign workers, reaching 7300; The building cleaning industry will accept 7000 people; The catering industry will accept 6800 people.

In order to attract more foreign workers to Japan, the Japanese government has also made adjustments in visas. For example, lowering language requirements.

According to the current plan of the Japanese government, applicants for foreign workers' visas only need to be able to understand and have a simple conversation. In addition, exams will be easier in areas with large labor gaps such as construction, agriculture, and nursing workers. The Japanese government hopes that this will encourage more foreign workers with poor Japanese to fill the current labor shortage in China.

The measures taken by the Japanese government are very welcome to the above-mentioned 14 trade unions and major enterprises, but some experts question whether there are enough foreign workers willing to work in Japan. MakotoKato, a researcher at Mitsubishi Research Institute, is worried about whether the Japanese government can attract 340,000 foreign workers in the next five years.

"The phenomenon of labor shortage in the nursing, food and infrastructure industries is mainly caused by the treatment and employment environment, and has little to do with whether the workers are Japanese or foreigners." He said that what the Abe government urgently needs to do is to carry out reforms such as raising the minimum wage in these industries.

Lose 6 trillion yen every year

For a long time, the influence of aging and declining birthrate on Japanese society and economy has been an unavoidable problem for Japanese political elites. According to the latest data released by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in September, there are 69,700 elderly people in Japan 100 and above, of whom 88% are women. This is also the increase for 48 consecutive years since the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare 1963 recorded data.

Therefore, the Abe government has continuously formulated and adjusted policies to cope with the increasingly serious aging crisis. After all, the rising proportion of the elderly population has directly led to the continuous expansion of the medical expenses of the Abe government. How to fill the medical bottomless pit has become a top priority for the Abe government.

To this end, Abe's government not only encourages the elderly to plan centenarians, but also starts with young people and womenomics. Last year, Abe's government launched the policy of "100 million active people" to supplement the shortage of the labor market, expand the labor force and support Japan's longevity society.

However, a report recently published by the National Population Research Institute of Japan believes that Japan will face a shortage of manpower caused by severe aging in 2025. By then, even if a large number of elderly people are employed to repay society and women.

Specifically, the above-mentioned report of the National Population Research Institute of Japan pointed out that from 2000 to 20 16, the number of workers aged 0/5 to 64 in Japan/kloc-0 decreased by 3.97 million, and it is expected that the number will decrease by 2.7 million by 2025.

Although the Abe government plans to increase women's employment and employ 654.38+10,000 elderly people every year to fill the labor shortage, based on the increasing number of elderly people over 65, the Abe government's move is "a drop in the bucket".

According to the data of the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the number of foreign workers has increased rapidly in the past four years in the case of a decreasing population in Japan. At present, the number of foreign workers in Japanese society has reached 6,543,800+0,800, an increase of 400,000 in four years.

Japan's National Population Research Institute described foreign workers in Japan as "a powerful labor force in Japanese society" and stressed that if the labor shortage problem cannot be solved, the decline of Japan's productivity will cause Abe's government to face economic losses of about 6 trillion yen every year.