TOKYO -- Japan's inability to attract foreign employees despite years of globalization efforts damages the country's financial services sector and other fields crucial to future growth, a close aide to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga warns in an interview earlier this month.
"The difficulty of procuring global talent is undermining Tokyo's economic competitiveness," Heizo Takenaka, a 69-year-old economics professor who serves on the Suga government's growth strategy council, told Nikkei Asia.
