Amid a population crisis, this island needs migrants to keep its industry alive | ABC NEWS
Japan is renowned as the world’s most homogeneous society, but a reluctance to open up to migration has led to a super-aged, shrinking society.
Many industries are now struggling to find workers.
But for one small community, multiculturalism has proven to be the answer.
North Asia correspondent James Oaten travelled to the island of Etajima.
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