Japan Inc. seeks 'golden' talent in Asia to address labor shortage

Companies redouble efforts to recruit college graduates, technical trainees

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A graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, one of India's leading engineering schools, works at Takasago Electric in Nagoya, in central Japan. (Photo by Eugene Lang)

EUGENE LANG, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Japanese companies are stepping up their hiring of college graduates and technical trainees from other Asian countries to address severe worker shortages that are similar to the two worst labor crunches the country experienced in its postwar history.

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