A Tokyo-based job-matching company is pairing students from Southeast Asian nations, including Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam, with Japanese employers via an online service.

More than 2,500 students from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations — which also includes Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines and Singapore — are registered with the ASEAN Career web service operated since 2014 by Node Inc.

Kenta Watanabe, the 28-year-old president of the company, said, "ASEAN economies are moving dynamically and have outstanding talent, including foreign students (in Japan)."