{"id":30742,"date":"2018-10-26T18:03:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30742"},"modified":"2018-10-26T18:03:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:33:51","slug":"india-can-bridge-it-staff-shortage-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-can-bridge-it-staff-shortage-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"India can bridge IT staff shortage in Japan\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/india-can-bridge-it-staff-shortage-in-japan\/article22985338.ece\"><b>India can bridge IT staff shortage in Japan\u2019<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japan is facing a shortage of information technology professionals due to an ageing population and falling birth rate.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India can fill the gap with its huge talent pool, executive vice-president of Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), said.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>IT professionals in Japan:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are about 920,000 IT professionals in Japan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is an immediate demand for more than 200,000 professionals<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The shortage is likely to touch 800,000 by 2030.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2016, there were 5,549 certified highly skilled foreign professionals registered in Japan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Of this 3,621 professionals were from China, 290 from the U.S. and 266 from India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Easing of rules for issuance of green card:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japan eased rules for issuance of green card and permanent residency status for highly skilled professionals in April last year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The new norms shortened the required period for permanent residency to one year from five years earlier.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Easier to learn Japanese language for China:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All the top Indian professionals are eager to go to the U.S.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China is the most populous nation and it is easier for a Chinese to learn the Japanese language.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also closer to Japan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, about 30,000 Japanese firms operate in China, much more than in U.S.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In India 1,369 companies from Japan have set up base while only 71 Indian companies operate in Japan.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Japanese companies operating in India:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of the total number of Japanese companies operating in India, 220 are out of Maharashtra, 197 in Tamil Nadu and 162 in the National Capital Region.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>U.S. new policy:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The U.S. administration last month imposed curbs on H-1B visas affecting companies such as TCS, Infosys and Wipro, which rely on the visas to do work for American firms.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As per the new U.S. policy, companies will have to prove that its H-1B employee at a third-party site has specific and non-qualifying speculative assignments in a speciality occupation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now on, H-1B visas would be valid only for the period for which the employee has work at a third-party site.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier, it was valid for three years at a time and the move came ahead of H-1B visa filing which starts on April 2.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Japan as a third largest investor for India:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japan has set an inward foreign investment target of $330 billion by 2020.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japan has become the third-largest investor for India after Mauritius and Singapore.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Companies such as Panasonic, Toshiba, Hitachi have already initiated the process of establishing an R&amp;D centre in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japan also eased rules for Indian travellers and from January this year, applicants do not require to submit their employment certificate and letters of explanation for multiple-entry visas.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The number of documents to be submitted has been cut to three.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India can bridge IT staff shortage in Japan\u2019 Context: Japan is facing a shortage of information technology professionals due to an ageing population and falling birth rate. India can fill the gap with its huge talent pool, executive vice-president of Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), said. IT professionals in Japan: There are about 920,000 IT&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-can-bridge-it-staff-shortage-in-japan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India can bridge IT staff shortage in Japan\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704722292},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}