As Japan heads into 2026, SMEs are reshaping their financial strategies by embracing fintech treasury tools, automation, and smarter pricing models to build resilience amid currency volatility, labor shortages, and rising costs.
Japan’s labor shortage is not just a demographic crisis but a strategic turning point—one that can be transformed into an opportunity through workforce reform, flexible employment models and responsible AI integration.
In a webinar supported by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Foreign Press Centre Japan (FPCJ) invited leading foreign journalists covering immigration issues to hear from them about the challenges facing Japan.