Pencil pushers from Japan’s government offices are now picking apples and drying kelp to help plug labor shortages
Local-government desk workers are picking fruit and drying kelp, the latest source of labor to be tapped after the elderly, more women and foreigners| Photos by Shiho Fukada for The Wall Street JournalHIROSAKI, Japan—Many areas of Japan are running so short of working-age people that local-government administrators are helping out on farms.
On a recent weekend, Yoshiaki Kato joined a few elderly women in harvesting apples at an orchard in Hirosaki, a city in the country’s north. Mr. Kato also occasionally carried baskets of the fruit and loaded them onto a cart before driving them away to be sorted by size and quality.
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