65% of Japan firms hire foreign workers to cover labor shortages

Around 65 percent of companies in Japan employ foreign workers to resolve labor shortages, a government survey showed Thursday.In the multiple response survey, 56.8 percent of companies said foreign workers are employed with the expectation that they will perform as well or better than Japanese staff, while 18.5 percent cited efforts to promote diversity, the labor ministry survey said.The survey was the first conducted by the ministry on the employment and recruitment of foreign workers, with the number continuing to increase amid Japan's graying and declining population.The survey of comp…READ FULL ARTICLE