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Japan in 2018 produced 29,000 graduates who had majored in natural science, mathematics and statistics, a 10th the number in the U.S.

Japan races to hire 270,000 artificial intelligence engineers

Nation has 4th largest number of IT workers but in wrong disciplines

TOKYO -- Already behind other countries in nurturing the IT professionals indispensable to a digital transformation, Japan in 2030 is expected to have 270,000 artificial intelligence and Internet of Things jobs that it will be unable to fill.

With few graduates holding STEM degrees -- those in science, technology, engineering and mathematics -- Japan sees gloom in its future and the need to invest more in human resources.

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