UPAYA PEMERINTAHAN FUMIO KISHIDA MENANGANI MASALAH ISU KRISIS TENAGA KERJA DI JEPANG

This study aims to explain the Fumio Kishida administration's efforts to address the issue of the labor crisis in Japan. The labor crisis that occurred in Japan became a very serious problem and was very influential in various sectors, especially in the economic, social and demographic sectors in Japan. This discussion is important and interesting to discuss, which with the aim of knowing the efforts of the Fumio Kishida government to deal with the labor crisis that occurred in Japan, the concept used in this study is the concept of public policy. The method used in this research is descriptive, which uses qualitative data analysis techniques, and data collection using library research techniques or library studies, by collecting data in the form of information from books, journals, theses, articles, as well as online news related to the problems studied by the author. The results found in this study, that the efforts of the Fumio Kishida government to deal with the issue of the labor crisis in Japan used internal and external efforts. In internal efforts, Fumio Kishida made efforts to use social policies in the form of demographic improvement programs and increasing worker productivity in Japan, and economic policies put forward in the government, namely “new capitalism” as his handling of the labor crisis in Japan. In his external efforts, Fumio Kishida accepted foreign workers by using Japan's immigration policy by conducting the Specified Skilled Workers (SSW) visa program, and also carried out international cooperation with the Technical Intern Training Program (TITP) program and continued the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) cooperation with partner countries (Indonesia and the Philippines) to meet labor needs in Japan in the health sector.