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Yahoo
30-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Japan's Watami to open training centre in Bangladesh
Watami, a restaurant group based in Japan, has announced plans to open a training centre in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, as reported by Nikkei Asia. The centre will train locals in farming, customer service, factory skills and food service, to send 3,000 individuals annually to Japan on specified skilled worker visas. The Japan Training Center, set to launch in October 2025, will be situated at the facilities of a Bangladeshi government agency. 1500 people will initially undergo a two-month training programme in skills such as customer service and factory work. Watami will leverage personnel from a Japanese language school operated by a group company to assist in the training. The development comes after Japan expanded its entry visa in 2023 to cover 11 industries, including the food service sector. The expansion allows foreign workers to engage in more complex roles such as store operations and management. Watami chairman and president Miki Watanabe stated: "Securing human resources is an obstacle to growth in the restaurant business. Being able to develop human resources in-house will be a strength." Established in 2020, Watami Agent, the human resources development unit of Watami, had welcomed 900 foreign workers by the end of March 2025. This included technical intern trainees and specified skilled workers, with 400 introduced to 107 companies. Japan is looking to recruit up to 100,000 workers from Bangladesh by 2030 to mitigate its labour shortage. Bangladesh's chief adviser Muhammad Yunus from the Bangladesh Seminar on Human Resources emphasised the interim government's commitment to facilitating employment opportunities for Bangladeshis in Japan. "Japan's Watami to open training centre in Bangladesh" was originally created and published by Verdict Food Service, a GlobalData owned brand. The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site. Error while retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data
Asahi Shimbun
19-05-2025
- Business
- Asahi Shimbun
Pub chain opens its first Subway sandwich shop in Yokohama
Watami Co. Chairman and President Miki Watanabe serves coffee for customers at a new Subway outlet in Yokohama's Naka Ward on April 10. (Masaki Hashida) YOKOHAMA--Major "izakaya" Japanese-style pub chain operator Watami Co. has opened a Subway outlet in the city's Naka Ward, with a fresh menu twist for the iconic U.S. sandwich chain in Japan. The Naka Ward shop offers new menu items adapted from popular dishes served at Watami's izakaya and 'yakiniku' grilled beef restaurants. The operator also improved the quality of the sandwich chain's coffee to make it pair well with sandwiches. Watami acquired the Japanese arm of Subway last year. At the Naka Ward shop, the vividly colored interior is equipped with power outlets and Wi-Fi to make the restaurant a comfortable and convenient establishment for customers. "Subway's sales at its existing outlets continued to increase year on year for 54 straight months, and we feel confident (about the business)," Watami Chairman and President Miki Watanabe said during a news conference held in Yokohama on April 10. "We want to make it a part of the lives of Japanese people by capturing the demand for breakfast and dinner items and catering to children." Watami plans to open 35 outlets in the current business year ending in March 2026 to bring the total number of Subway restaurants in Japan to 215. The company intends to operate more than 1,000 outlets in the business year ending in March 2035 and expand that number to 3,000 in the future, it added.
