How Japan is Addressing the Construction Labor Shortage

摘要

Japan is facing a skilled labor shortage similar to our own and now plans to test a new idea to address its construction industry's shrinking numbers. Might it work here? Japan's overall labor force is shrinking, and the country is facing the possibility of an 8-million-worker shortage by 2025. The country's skilled construction worker supply has dropped 28 percent in the past two decades with 90 percent of those workers over aqe 30.