Okinawa hotelier starts foreign worker placement amid labor crunch

Training for new foreign workers at Resorts Ryukyu covers practical matters as well as Japanese culture and manners. (Resorts Ryukyu)

NAHA, Japan — A hotel operator based in Japan’s southernmost prefecture of Okinawa is starting a business to place skilled foreign workers in the labor-starved accommodation and food service industries, aiming to dispatch 200 people by fiscal 2028.