Foreign workers in Japan nearly double since 2008
The number of foreign workers in Japan has nearly doubled, rising from about 4.8 lakh in 2008 to over 9 lakh in 2015. This comes after Japan's government projected that the country's 12.7-crore population will shrink by 1.9 crore by 2040. Earlier, Japan's central bank Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said that more foreign labour is essential for achieving long-term sustainable growth. 