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Japan has renewed its interest in Indian information technology talent. The country, struggling with a shortage of labour for emerging areas, is now looking to India for hiring software engineers on mobile, cloud and machine learning technologies.
The Japanese province - Mie Prefecture, has sought help from the Karnataka government to look for local software talent who can migrate to Japan on one-three year projects, ahead of the country launching its Green Card.
It is looking to hire a few hundred engineers to begin with from Bengaluru, India's technology hub that has over 1 million software engineers and slowly expand the need.
