Japan's omicron travel ban strands caregivers and farmers

Labor shortage lingers while foreign workers await entry into country

NANA SHIBATA, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Concern is growing in Japan's farming and nursing care communities now that the government has again closed the border, this time in an attempt to keep the omicron variant at bay.

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