JAPAN CLOTHING AND TEXTILE INDUSTRY FACES FOREIGN LABOUR SHORTAGE
May 1st, 2011
BY JULIAN RYALL
AS if Japanese clothing manufacturers did not have enough to worry about already from the physical and logistical damage caused by the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake and the tsunami that it triggered, there are now fears it could cause a labour shortage.
The nation's knitting, weaving and sewing industries employ tens of thousands of foreign trainees, most of them on three-year technical assignments from China, Indonesia and the Philippines.
The Japan Textile Federation estimates that three-quarters left the country after the natural ...
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