Tokyo-Hosted, Free: Recruitment Seminars, Expert Dispatch and Business-Japanese Training to Help Hospitality, Dining and Retail Tap Foreign TalentA · FULL TRANSLATION
- Rising inbound visitors push Tokyo's tourism sector to actively employ foreign talent
- Hosted by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and run by HIS, the program offers recruitment-support seminars
- It also provides expert dispatch and business-Japanese training, free of charge
- Aimed at lodging, dining and retail operators within Tokyo
Billed as a recruitment event, this free Tokyo-hosted program really reflects a structural labor shortage in Japan's service sector amid an inbound-tourism rebound. As visitors return and lift demand at hotels, restaurants and shops, what operators lack most is not just hands but multilingual, cross-cultural staff who can serve foreign customers.
That a metropolitan government is directly running recruitment support, dispatching experts and funding business-Japanese training elevates "foreign-talent utilization" from a company matter to city-level labor policy. It signals Japan's bid to ease long-run demographic pressure through a loop of foreign labor and inbound spending.
For Taiwanese workers and firms, such institutionalized channels are worth watching—could cross-border talent flows become a new link between Taiwan and Japan?
As the number of foreign visitors to Tokyo continues to rise, the city's tourism industry is accelerating its use of foreign talent in order to actively capture inbound demand.
To support this, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government will host a set of measures helping lodging, dining and retail operators employ foreign talent to meet inbound demand. The program includes recruitment-support seminars, dispatch of experts, and business-Japanese training, with operations handled by H.I.S. Co., Ltd. (Corporate Sales Headquarters, Second Business Division).
The initiative targets accommodation, food-service and retail businesses within Tokyo and is free to attend, aiming to help operators better seize the business opportunities created by inbound demand through the recruitment and development of foreign talent.