😡A top figure at Hidakaya, one of Japan’s biggest restaurant chains, said:
“If we can’t use foreign workers, then we’ll have to hire Japanese workers.”
Japanese people were furious.
Responses exploded:
“So the labor shortage was a lie?”
“You just wanted cheap foreign labor.”
“You’ve been looking down on Japanese workers this whole time.”
This one statement perfectly exposed what is really happening in Japan’s job market.
The issue was never simply a labor shortage.
The real problem is that many companies became addicted to importing low-wage labor instead of raising wages and hiring Japanese workers.
#Japan #JapaneseWorkers #LaborCrisis #CheapLabor #ForeignWorkers
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