With a little over three months left in 2023, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida¡¯s administration is turning its attention to a looming challenge: a lack of truck drivers.
Kishida has said that he plans to draft a set of policies to deal with the so-called 2024 problem ¡ª recent buzzwords for an expected shortage of truck drivers once their overtime hours are capped in 2024.
¡°The government compiled a (basic) policy package in June over the issue, and we need to implement it quickly,¡± Kishida told reporters Thursday after he visited a truck company in Tokyo early in the morning.
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