Business Desk :
Japan has emerged as a potential market for Bangladeshi workers as it can help increase employment opportunity and quality migration.
Officials at the Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET) say they are giving priority to tap this opportunity through sending more workers to this attractive job destination country.
Bangladesh has a target to send at least 3,000 workers to Japan for different sectors next year, says BMET director (training operations) engineer Md Salah Uddin.
Currently, foreign workers are in good demand in the East Asian nation that is willing to hire workers from Bangladesh.
Dhaka is keenly working to tap the potential properly, according to the official.
In 2017, expatriates’ welfare and overseas employment ministry of Bangladesh and International Manpower Development Organisation of Japan (IM Japan) signed an instrument for training technical interns of Bangladesh in Japan. On the other hand, Dhaka and Tokyo signed a memorandum of cooperation (MoC) on the recruitment of specified skilled workers (SSWs) in August 2019. Bangladesh has been enlisted as the ninth source country for sending skilled workers to Japan following the signing of the MoC.
Japan, as the world’s third-largest economy, will need some 345,000 foreign workers by 2025.
In line with the signing of the MoC in 2019, officials say, Japan will hire manpower from Bangladesh in 14 sectors and industries under two categories.
The act of sending technical interns has remained almost halted following the outbreak of Covid-19. Now it is gathering pace gradually, they add.
