抄録
In Japan, the shortage of researchers is expected to be 1.76 million in 2010 by rapid aging of Japanesesociety. Japanese Economic White Paper of 1999 also said that Japan should discuss foreign labor employment in knowledge works. In this study, we examine what kinds of Japanese companies employs foreign researchers through a questionnaire survey. This questionnaire survey was delivered to 830 Japanese companies in Tokyo First Stock Market and got 250 responses (the response rate is about 30%). As a result of the study, we found that Japanese companies that already employed foreign researchers evaluated foreign researchers highly and Japanese firms with the greater sales (business) and R&D scales tend to employ the larger number of foreign researchers.
