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ISLAMABAD – Japan would provide jobs to around 350,000 workers from 10different countries, including Pakistan, Ambassador of Japan to Pakistan,Kuninori Matsuda said Wednesday.
The labour force would accommodate in 14 major sectors including nursingcare, building clinic, agriculture, fisheries, hotel management, food andbeverages, aircraft maintenance and airports ground handling staff,shipbuilding, material processing, industrial machinery, constructions, carmechanic, electronics and electronic machinery in cards to import skilledlabour force, Kuninori Matsuda told APP here.
Talking to APP, the ambassador said that Pakistan and Japan agreed to signsMemorandum of Understanding (MoU) in November for export of thousands ofhi-tech skilled labourers from Pakistan to Japan.
He said that Japan intended to attract around 3,50000 blue-collar workersfrom all over the world over five years by 2025 and further enhance thisnumber by 2030.
He said that in current scenario, Japan facing shortage of labour force,“We need to import skilled labourers from 10 countries including Pakistan,India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and other Association of South East AsianNations (ASAIN).
He also praised the Pakistani workers who were working in Japan, sayingthat they were more skilled and working with full commitment and honesty.
He said that professional skills and proficiency in Japanese language wouldbe must for workers to work in Japan under this policy.
He said that Japan and Pakistan have enjoyed historical diplomatic andeconomic relation, where Japan has always supported Pakistan in everysituation.
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Replying to a question, the ambassador said that Pakistan and Japan arelooking for increasing bilateral cooperation in agricultural-based industryand value addition as Japan has already announced grant aid to enhanceproductivity in relevant agricultural fields.
He said that Japan was also looking for enhancing the cooperation in autoparts industry for enhancing the capacity of local labour and providingemployment opportunities in Pakistan.
He said that Japanese companies were interested to establish the industrialunits of auto parts in Pakistan for bringing investment to provideopportunity to the local people Recently Japan announced a grand aid of $5.2 million to support Agri-Food and Agro-Industry development in thecountry’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces, he said.
The senior diplomat said that this amount would be utilized for enhancementof productivity and capacities of relevant sectors in the cattle meat valuechain in districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa including Abbottabad, Kohistan andD I Khan and apple value chain in province of Balochistan in Quetta, KillaAbdullah and Pishin.
He said that both side have more potential to increase bilateral trade fromcurrent volume of trade and double the figure to exploit the resources.
He said that said the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) wasalready working on potential agro-based region of Khyber Pakhtunkwaincluding Hazara, Swat and Chitral as in Gilgit Batistan for promotinginnovation and value addition culture in these areas.
He said that through JICA, the Japanese government was also working on coldstorage for the preservation apple, apricot and other perishable fruits.
