National / Social Issues Mar 3, 2017

In a break from LDP, Kono calls for Japan to open doors to blue-collar foreign workers

by Tomohiro Osaki

Veteran Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Taro Kono is calling for a drastic policy shift that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is loath to accept: open up Japan to blue-collar foreign workers. For Japan, which has for years grappled with a fertility rate of less than 1.5, ...