India Japan Seminar Boosts Workforce Mobility Cooperation

28 May 2026 CW Team

The secretary outlined India’s demographic strength, skilling ecosystem and institutional reforms as foundations for supplying skilled manpower to global economies, including Japan. She described the nationwide workforce preparation ecosystem supported by higher education institutions, industrial training institutes, apprenticeships, digital skilling platforms and career services, and noted platforms such as eMigrate, the National Career Service and Model Career Centres. She urged strengthening Japanese language readiness and sector-specific testing and alignment.

Special messages from the Japanese prime minister, the chief minister of Assam and the director of the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati) framed a medium- to long-term vision for personnel exchange, and the Assam Government’s Foreign Language Initiative for Global Talent was highlighted as a state-led model. The seminar saw participation from around 250 representatives of leading Japanese companies, including senior executives and human resource managers, who explored structured engagement with India’s skilled workforce ecosystem. Participants identified cooperation potential across manufacturing, caregiving, construction, automobile maintenance, hospitality, agriculture, IT, digital services and emerging green sectors.

Discussions emphasised the importance of digital public infrastructure and employment facilitation systems for transparent, scalable mobility pathways and recommended expanding Japanese language and testing centres in India, strengthening collaboration between Japanese employers and Indian skilling institutions, improving demand visibility and promoting skill recognition and occupational alignment. Both sides agreed on ethical recruitment practices and closer institutional cooperation to build trusted pathways. The event concluded with a call to pursue a personnel exchange programme involving 50,000 people over the next 10 years and renewed optimism about long-term people-to-people partnerships.

A joint seminar in Tokyo on 25 May, organised by the Embassy of India in Japan and ASEAN ONE Co. Ltd., brought Japanese policymakers, industry leaders, academic institutions and workforce mobility stakeholders together to discuss long-term cooperation in skilled workforce mobility and human resource development between India and Japan. Vandana Gurnani, Secretary of the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India (the ministry), delivered the keynote and outlined the government's commitment to transparent, ethical and scalable international labour mobility pathways. The secretary outlined India’s demographic strength, skilling ecosystem and institutional reforms as foundations for supplying skilled manpower to global economies, including Japan. She described the nationwide workforce preparation ecosystem supported by higher education institutions, industrial training institutes, apprenticeships, digital skilling platforms and career services, and noted platforms such as eMigrate, the National Career Service and Model Career Centres. She urged strengthening Japanese language readiness and sector-specific testing and alignment. Special messages from the Japanese prime minister, the chief minister of Assam and the director of the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati) framed a medium- to long-term vision for personnel exchange, and the Assam Government’s Foreign Language Initiative for Global Talent was highlighted as a state-led model. The seminar saw participation from around 250 representatives of leading Japanese companies, including senior executives and human resource managers, who explored structured engagement with India’s skilled workforce ecosystem. Participants identified cooperation potential across manufacturing, caregiving, construction, automobile maintenance, hospitality, agriculture, IT, digital services and emerging green sectors. Discussions emphasised the importance of digital public infrastructure and employment facilitation systems for transparent, scalable mobility pathways and recommended expanding Japanese language and testing centres in India, strengthening collaboration between Japanese employers and Indian skilling institutions, improving demand visibility and promoting skill recognition and occupational alignment. Both sides agreed on ethical recruitment practices and closer institutional cooperation to build trusted pathways. The event concluded with a call to pursue a personnel exchange programme involving 50,000 people over the next 10 years and renewed optimism about long-term people-to-people partnerships.

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