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The number of foreign workers in the country as of Oct. 31 was down 0.6 percent from a year earlier as the automobile and other manufacturing sectors scaled back amid the global economic slowdown, government data showed Tuesday.

WASHINGTON – The government is considering increasing the number of foreign engineers and researchers accepted into the country by units of 100,000, according to Yasutoshi Nishimura, senior vice minister at the Cabinet Office.

WASHINGTON – The government is considering increasing the number of foreign engineers and researchers accepted into the country by units of 100,000, according to Yasutoshi Nishimura, senior vice minister at the Cabinet Office.

Fast Retailing Co., the operator of the Uniqlo clothing chain, announced bold plans to move toward a uniform pay scale that standardizes salaries between its Japanese and foreign employees. The company hopes the move will help it to attract and keep foreign talent as it aims for rapid global expansion.

Last month, a Chinese trainee went on a stabbing rampage at a Hiroshima Prefecture seafood company where he worked, killing the president and an employee and wounding six others.

A policy initiative designed to encourage highly skilled foreign professionals to come and stay in Japan is not working out as the Justice Ministry had envisioned.

The health ministry said Monday that 30 nurse candidates from the Philippines and Indonesia passed the qualification test in February needed to be nurses in Japan.

Last month, a Chinese trainee went on a stabbing rampage at a Hiroshima Prefecture seafood company where he worked, killing the president and an employee and wounding six others.