Japan intends to hire 50,000 'competent and semi-skilled' staff in the next five years'

India’s Foreign Ministry (MEA) on Friday, August 29, 2025, announced that Japan would like to rent 50,000 ‘skilled and semi-skilled’ staff from India in the next five years, part of its larger agenda to exchange 500,000 people, the news agency Ani, which cited Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram. “The two parties today concluded an important action plan for the exchange of human resources, determining a number of two-way exchange of people from 5,00,000 over the next five years, including 50,000 competent and semi-skilled staff from India to Japan,” Misri said in his media address. At the press conference for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Japan, Indian Foreign Minister Vikram Misri said both governments discussed how to use the Indians to Japan. “There is an Indian diaspora in Japan, but the mechanics to make better use of it was a discussion between both governments,” Misri said. The Foreign Minister also said that Japan has a ‘dynamic economy’, but in certain sectors is facing a lack of labor. Misri emphasized that India has a large pool of candidates who can meet the vacancies. “Japan has a dynamic economy, but also has a shortage of labor in certain specific sectors. India has a large pool of competent and semi-skilled staff who can fill the need in exactly some of these sectors in Japan,” he said according to the agency report. Japan’s investment goal in India Japan set an investment goal of 10 trillion yen or nearly £ 6 Lakh Crore in India on Friday over the next ten years with the aim of promoting the economic partnership between the two countries. “We set a target of 10 trillion Yen investment from Japan in India over the next ten years,” Modi said according to a PTI report. Both countries have confirmed 13 key agreements and statements and announced the launch of various transformative initiatives, including an economic security architecture to promote the resilience of the supply chain in strategic sectors such as semiconductors, clean energy, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, critical minerals and new and emerging technologies. “We both agree that our partnership as two important economies and live democracies is very important, not only for our two countries, but also for global peace and stability. Strong democracies are natural partners in shaping a better world,” says Premier Modi, according to the agency report. “We have laid a strong basis for a new and golden chapter in our special strategic and global partnership today. We have set up a roadmap for the next decade,” they said.