Sajid Hussain Turi meets Wakako Sakurai, Pakistan-Japan cooperation discussed

Islamabad: Federal Minister for Overseas Pakistanis & Human Resource Development, Mr. Sajid Hussain Turi met Ms. Wakako Sakurai Founder and CEO of Plus -W a Japanese global recruiting company on 3rd October in Islamabad.

The Japanese global recruiting company is striving for Human Resources of IT sector for securing employment in IT industry of Japan.

During the meeting the Federal Minister for Overseas Pakistanis discuss the scope of human resource export from different sectors of Pakistan to Japan including the IT professionals. The Federal Minister for OP&HRD also informed the honorable Japanese delegates regarding a state of the art data bank maintained by Overseas Employment Corporation, a manpower promotion agency working under the ambit of the Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development.

Ms. Sakurai, CEO of the Plus-W apprise the Federal Minister regarding the establishment of Plus-W back in 2020 with an aim of placing Human Resources to different sector of Japanese economy especially the IT sector. The Company started its liaison coordination with Pakistanis stakeholders in 2021 and concluded an MoA with NUST for opening a Japan Centre in NUST, for future possibility of enhancing IT professionals on job placement in Japan.

The Federal Minister applauded the efforts of the Japanese company for enhancing the migration mobility of IT professionals in Japan and also assured all possible cooperation and support from the Ministry of OP&HRD and its attached organization especially the OEC, where the Plus-W has shown intention to establish a business centre for IT professionals.

The CEO of the company acknowledge the services rendered by the Ministry of OP&HRD and its organization like OEC and BE&OE for legal migration to different destinations including Japan.

The meeting concluded with remarks of the Federal Minister that the Plus-W will help the IT professionals for better career prospects in Japan and this will also strengthen the bilateral relations between Pakistan and Japan.