ISAS Briefs

In early June 2018, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced plans to tackle his country’s shrinking workforce, promising to bring in 500,000 foreign workers by 2025. A first batch of Indian interns arrived in Japan on 17 July 2018 under the Technical Intern Training Program, which was established by India and Japan in October 2017. In fact, the two countries could benefit from each other’s demographic challenges. The paper discusses the potential role India could play as a longer-term solution to Japan’s problems and vice versa.