Japan tries to boost its workforce

In this article, "Japan tries to boost its workforce" the author reports that Japanese government makes women, young people, and retired people to participate to work. In Japan, the problem of decreasing the population of working-age has become serious. However, the government said, "It is not appropriate to import foreign workers." They also said that it would be for social security, crime prevention, and economic competitiveness.

This time, I want to discuss about my country in this class. I think this topic is familiar to us because we studied about population in core class. Nowadays, Japan faces the problem, which the population of working-age is decreasing. However, I don’t agree with their solution because Japan also faces the problem of declining of TFR (Total Fertility Rate). According to this article, it is 1.29 in 2003. If women became to work more, it would decrease more. However, I don’t want them to permit immigration. I think that once we accept immigration, Japanese would not be single nation anymore. I think that the best way of solving this problem is to encourage young people to work. If Japanese governments want more people for working, they should give them more chance to participate in society.

Written by Rei