More and more highly educated young people from South Korea, which like Japan has a rapidly graying population and needs more foreign labor for its economy, are coming to Japan because it¡¯s difficult to find work at home.
Amid high youth unemployment driven by hiring cutbacks at industrial conglomerates, South Korea has become a new source of foreign workers for Japan.
In mid-April, some 40 South Korean job seekers signed up for interviews at a job fair in Nagoya¡¯s Nakamura Ward where 17 Japanese firms in the high-tech, manufacturing and retail industries were looking for prospects.
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