TOKYO -- Japan's foreign workforce has seen its landscape change because of shifts in wages and exchange rates, with Vietnamese workers overtaking Chinese workers as the largest group last year while workers from Indonesia nearly tripled from 2018.
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Indonesians, Vietnamese form larger share of Japan's foreign workers
Weak yen and relatively low wages sap appeal for Chinese and Western workers
Many Indonesian workers have found jobs in Japan's short-handed agricultural sector. (Photo obtained by Nikkei)
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