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Japan is a country with a very low birth rate. So, Japan has some shortage of skilled labors and it plans to get the workers from some Asian countries. Nepal government officials are interested to make the most of this opportunity. So, they are trying to arrange that Nepalese workers can go and work in Japan.

People's Daily wrote:

In the first week of January 2008, the government started diplomatic efforts to send Nepali jobseekers with varying qualifications -- ranging from highly skilled to semi-skilled to Japan, the report said.

Nepal's ambassador to Japan Ganesh Yonjan had requested Labor Ministry officials to send a formal letter of approval to the Japanese authorities about the recruitment of Nepali workers in different Japanese industrial enterprises following the green signal from JITCO.

Last September, JITCO officials had visited Nepal and inspected different government and private vocational training centers.

This is very good news for Nepalese workers. Many Nepalese workers work in the Middle East and in Malaysia. Japan can be even more attractive destination because workers in Japan earn much more than workers of most other Asian countries.