Posted on 11/20/2018 10:39:51 AM PST by chajin
MIYAZAKI – 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 information technology sector, the city has been encouraging firms to run businesses there to help energize the area, said Tsugunobu Ogino, president of KJS Co., a Miyazaki-based IT firm that makes e-learning systems.
“But they are struggling to find engineers, since many move to Tokyo,” he said.
Now, the city in the southern Kyushu region may have found an unexpected solution, one thousands of kilometers away: Bangladesh...
(Excerpt) Read more at japantimes.co.jp ...
If some country was willing to pay me 3 times what I normally make for my skills, I would think about it, especially if it was short term, like a year or so.
But so far being able to finish 3 meatball heroes at one sitting hasn’t been very in demand overseas.
Bangladesh.............what could possibly go wrong?....................
If there was a telecommute option, I’d be interested.
There are none so blind . . . as those who will not see
Attaboyz, Japan . . . learn from you allies . . . not
Good post but since this is The Japan Times, an unusual Japanese publication because it is aimed at foreigners, I suspect this story is mostly for FOREIGN consumption.
Usually, this subset of Japanese media has a perennial “Japan at the crossroads..!”-theme, as if NOW Japan is juuuust perched on the cusp of turning into a completely Westernized country.
If you rely exclusively on such sources, you get a scewed, other-worldly view of Japan that pleases the Japanese very much.
Some themes you’ll swear by:
1. Japan is turning into a Lifestyle Superpower
2. The capitol city of Japan will soon move out of Tokyo
3. The problems out at Narita are juuuust about to be resolved
4. Lots of Japanese women are nuts about feminism
5. Japan is about to import a whole ton of foreigners
6. Being of mixed race is unremarkable. Or it’s cool. Or both, sort of like One Hand Clapping.
7. Commute times are about to shorten dramatically
That’s just some I thought up but if I really reflect on it, I could triple that.
Japan cannot handle a demographic shift. It will be another nail in its coffin along with a birthrate that is evaporating their society.
All you data is belong to us!.....................
The problems out at Narita are juuuust about to be resolved
Narita's problems have been resolved the only way they could have been: more people are now flying to Haneda.
Seriously, way back when I first lived in Japan a half-century ago, the Japan Times was much less omotenashi than it seems to be today. Today, The Japan Times is associated with the NYT, meaning you can't really trust any of its headline news.
Between you and me, I suspect that, deep down inside, most Japanese would be just fine with going back to the prewar population of 60 million, as long as the infrastructure could be kept running by a combination of automatons and rotating Asian labor. It would take something metaphysical rather than physical to change that.
It took some FReeper to come out with a solution to their problems?
You’re right. you only need a certain number of tech guys on site.
outsource the rest
good idea
A good many of the paper shufflers work from home almost exclusively at my place.
I have to be on site since I have to touch things and fix broken toys.
lol
Yeah you ALWAYS need on site guys so people like me can call IT and say “my computer’s frozen!!!” :)
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