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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.
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Japan races to hire 270,000 artificial intelligence engineers

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

KOSUKE TOSHI, Nikkei staff writer | Japan

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.

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