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High-Tech Japanese, Running Out of Engineers

                   
the-dispatch.com
May 17, 2008
        
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At Utsunomiya University, north of Tokyo, graduate students in the engineering department demonstrate an optical system. The decline is growing so drastic that industry has begun advertising campaigns intended to make engineering look sexy and cool, and companies are slowly starting to import... [read full story]                    

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Japan is Running Out of Engineers

 impactlab.com May 20, 2008
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As culture shifts, Japan faces engineering shortage

 iht.com May 18, 2008
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Japan is Running Out of Engineers

impactlab.com
May 20, 2008
        

The engineer shortage in Japan can be directly attributed to the latest fashion - the mummy look Japan is running out of engineers. After years of fretting over coming shortages, the country is actually facing a dwindling number of young people entering engineering and technology-related fields.

                   

Japan “Running Out of Engineers”

alterslash.org
May 19, 2008
        

Japan “Running Out of Engineers” - by writes “A story in the New York Times reports that Japan, a country that rebuilt itself as a technological power after World War II, now faces an increasing shortage of college graduates with degrees in science and engineering. The article goes on to point...

                   

Japan is running out of engineers!

crunchgear.com
May 18, 2008
        

Looks like Japan is running out of engineers, the guys who design all the neat high-tech toys (among other things) so many of us fawn over. And you can blame “Western” ideology for the shortage. Young Japanese are fleeing the sciences, including mathematics and engineering, to pursue “easy”...

                   

Japan faces engineering shortage

iht.com
May 18, 2008
        

Japan is running out of engineers. The decline is growing so drastic that industry has begun advertising campaigns to make engineering look sexy and cool, and companies are slowly starting to import foreign workers, or sending jobs to where the engineers are, in Vietnam and India. The first signs...

                   

As culture shifts, Japan faces engineering shortage

iht.com
May 18, 2008
        

U.S. stocks little changed as high oil prices lifted energy shares By one estimate from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the digital technology industry here is already short almost half a million engineers. Corporate recruiters have begun poaching engineers midcareer with fat signing bonuses, a...