Japan’s regional economies are facing severe labor shortages. Their survival depends on their ability to persuade foreign workers to stay. By River Akira Davis and Hisako Ueno Reporting from ...

Japan desperately needs people like Ms. Thazin to fill jobs left open by a declining and aging population. The number of foreign workers has quadrupled since 2007, to more than two million, in a ...

Tokyo - Outgoing Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori wants to stay in Japan indefinitely, he said on Tuesday night. "I want to go back (to Peru) someday, but I don't know when," Fujimori said at a ...

Japan is still "often painted as hostile, if not downright xenophobic", said The Japan Times. But the number of overseas workers has "more than doubled" over the past decade, The foreign community ...