(VOVworld) - Japan might need to recruit 30,000 foreign Information Technology (IT) engineers, especially from India and Vietnam, in the next four years to work in the country.

Nguyen Doan Hung, Chairman of the Vietnam - Japan IT Cooperation Club (VJC) made this observation at the Vietnam IT Day 2016 in Japan recently. The annual event has been organized since 2013 with the purpose of boosting IT co-operation between Vietnamese and Japanese companies. There were more than 200 Japanese enterprises attending the event, along with 16 units from Vietnam, which are leading IT names nationwide. A representative of FPT Software told the Vietnam Economic Times that the company aimed to increase its staff working in Japan from 500 to 3,000 by 2020. The company also set goals to earn revenue of 500 million USD by 2020 from the Japanese market, accounting for 50% of its total revenue.