Japan's National Institute of Technology (KOSEN)— five-year technical colleges that admit students straight out of middle school — has emerged as the unexpected center of a regiona......
When TSMC's Japanese subsidiary JASM began operations in Kumamoto, the most immediate disruption was not to chip supply chains — it was to local pay scales.New graduates entering t......
In Kumamoto, Japan, there are now more than 20 job openings for every available candidate. TSMC needs engineers at its Kumamoto plant — and equally at its facilities in Taiwan. Rat......
Japan's labor market is undergoing a structural shift, and a single data point captures it sharply. In March 2026, the job-offer ratio — a measure of how many job openings exist fo......
