There's a risk that the industry may not be able to stay afloat after the Olympics, if the labor shortage escalates. We can no longer hold off cultivating the younger generation.

nonsense. construction is a gravy train in Japan and they will always whine that things are tough.

Yeah, there's a simple way: offer your workers decent pay, health insurance, holidays and other conditions that hard working people in a developed economy deserve, rather than dispatching trucks to Sanya and the other slums for cheap day-laborers, as is your usual hideous habit.

How many millions did Mr Mori make this year? Oh, the poor dear. Let's all feel sorry for the planet's biggest (and wealthiest) scroungers.

Stop paying off the yakuza and put that money in into higher wages.