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"Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of the influential Japan Business Federation, said Monday Japan should accept foreign laborers 'in all business categories' to cope with a shortage of labor in the near future.

As Japan's labor population will begin to decrease by 1 million a year after 2010 [emphasis mine], it will be difficult to overcome a resultant labor shortage only with the addition of more senior citizens and women to the labor force and the utilization of information technology, Okuda said in reference to the need to aggressively accept workers from abroad."

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