Statistics compiled by the Japanese government show that the number of foreign workers in the country hit a record high last year, surpassing 2.3 million.

TOKYO -- The number of foreigners working in Japan jumped by 250,000 in a year to 2.3 million in October, the largest year-on-year increase since records began in 2008, as efforts by companies to ...

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Japan's labor ministry is eyeing expansion of the so-called "inter-work interval system" requiring a certain number of rest ...