If we can pave a path for talented foreign students to be able to excel at Japanese companies, that will help us deal with the worsening labor shortage and support the development of companies in the prefecture.

Can they really wage fairly those students according with their talent?

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Work/Japan-minimum-wage-falls-short-by-international-standards

Can they really wage fairly those students according with their talent?

Probably not. And that's not the only factor. Is there a pathway to citizenship? Are there laws going to be passed that curb the toxic work environment in Japanese companies? etc.

Foreigners are now considered a threat to national security in a vast array of sectors. And given the rising global tide in hatred towards foreign workers, foreign tourists and foreign students, this may be a non starter.

Japan might need to follow the UK's policy of managed decline. Luckily, it has twice the population and more wealth, so it won't be quite as grim. Unless the US and China go to war.

It's not going to help much. Just pay the workers more if there's a labor shortage and they want quality. Welcome to the concept of "supply and demand."

The danger with these Japanese companies is that they bring on people from developing countries in the belief they'll be happy with mediocre wages. The ensuring turnover will eventually worsen their businesses instead of improving them.

It's not going to help much. Just pay the workers more if there's a labor shortage and they want quality. Welcome to the concept of "supply and demand."

The problem is that the Japanese truly do not understand that concept.

The danger with these Japanese companies is that they bring on people from developing countries in the belief they'll be happy with mediocre wages. The ensuring turnover will eventually worsen their businesses instead of improving them.

Exactly.

It’s a win - win situation for everyone. And if he/she is a good person, then grant them permanent residency if they wish.

It’s a win - win situation for everyone

That of course completely depend on the salaries being competitive, but since they are usually not, the only real win for the talented foreign students is to find employment overseas. Maybe with companies that have dealings with Japan, so the students can still make use of whatever Japanese proficiency they have.

Why students, though?

Japan already has some foreign workers who are doing some job below their real potential. They only need a push.

For example, even if their Japanese language skills are not seem as enough for some job, give them a chance to improve it while using their strong points. It may take time, but in the end it would probably be worth it.

As long as it's not through their current human trafficking program... errr "internship" program.

I also like how this falls on the heels of one school here saying it's going to increase tuition for foreign students.

First, get rid of the haken gaisha system. Without that first step, talented foreign workers mean nothing but someone at the very bottom to get rid of at any time. That goes for nationals as well.

Well, first you're gonna need way more international students.

doing nothing is the answer.

simply hire qualified people to meet the demand.

act like a normal business.

there is better solution.

pay better money to workers.

there is no labor shortage at all.

Or if you want to do something, help them start their own companies.

doing nothing is the answer.

simply hire qualified people to meet the demand.

act like a normal business.

That's very improbable, even if catching some of those students, because we have in general quite some severe level differences between current students in GenZ and former generation students who then graduated and brought all those companies up to top world ranking places. Especially I mean motivation, willingness for hard and very long working weeks and of course , which is the biggest problem, the intellectual capabilities, the level they are capable of mastering the challenges after they graduated from universities. As a little example, have you seen some latest tasks to solve at Math Olympiad competitions? They are not easy, but they are such, that all former students of my generation had them in normal school curriculum, while they are nowadays considered very heavy and only possible to solve at competitions where the few bests meet. I guess you get the point here. Even if you could attract the good foreign students, you will get only former average and normal level workers and employees. They are good, but won't help much to bring the companies up to higher levels, beating rival companies or coming up with innovations and patents which can be transferred into practice and production. As I said, it's very improbable that this concept of attracting a few or some more foreign students will work on a bigger scale.