Question

how technologies affected labor supply in japan?

Answer 1

Japan is currently facing a situation in which the relative scarcity of engineering talent is rising at all levels, as demand exceeds supply. In other words, there are simply not enough indigenous resources (i.e., new engineering graduates and advanced research programs based at universities) to meet the expected future demand for technical expertise within Japan. Japanese high-tech companies are already facing strategic technology fields where they can't develop enough indigenous talent within a reasonable time frame. This prevents or delays the mounting of effective autonomous development efforts

The "soft crisis" is a result of the Japanese software industry's boom in bumping off a fairly inelastic supply of software engineers. Japanese educational institutions have proven inadequate for the mission of increasing the software engineering supply. They continue to act as a bottleneck because Japanese universities are slow in reorienting their programs to new fields–if they can do so at all.

Japanese students are generally not involved in programs related to science and engineering. At the same time, Japanese universities do not respond to emerging technological fields ' changing requirements. Committed to programs relating to older technical fields, they were reluctant to extend their offerings in new technical fields. Combined, the reduced supply and the failure to move resources towards a teaching program related to software leaves Japanese companies in a real bind.

The reservoir of scientific and engineering talent is diminishing, institutional rigidity in the Japanese education system is inhibiting the supply of qualified recruits to Japanese companies. In particular, there are typically limits regarding the number of students admitted to the various disciplinary fields. Such quotas are the product of decisions made at leading universities by the Ministry of Education and the established engineering faculty. In fact, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) has instituted measures to encourage the establishment of "information colleges" in an attempt to bypass these bottlenecks, with the goal of dramatically