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Japanese Group Protests Plans to Bring in Foreign Workers

A Japanese group is protesting the government's call for more foreign workers to relocate to the country as it tries to alleviate a severe labor shortage. So reports HRM Asia.

At least 100 members of Japan First recently took to Tokyo's Ginza shopping district to demand that the government quash the plan. Japan wants to invite about 500,000 foreigners to take on jobs that the country is struggling to fill as its aging native population grows rapidly.

There are 1.3 million foreign workers now in Japan. Foreigners represented about 1.7% of the overall population, as of April.

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