{"id":174239,"date":"2026-01-03T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/03\/artificial-intelligence-will-reduce-japans-workforce-in-next-10-years-many-top-executives-say\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T07:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T12:45:11","slug":"artificial-intelligence-will-reduce-japans-workforce-in-next-10-years-many-top-executives-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/03\/artificial-intelligence-will-reduce-japans-workforce-in-next-10-years-many-top-executives-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence Will Reduce Japan\u2019s Workforce in Next 10 Years, Many Top Executives Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/japannews.yomiuri.co.jp\/business\/companies\/20260103-301980\/\">Artificial Intelligence Will Reduce Japan\u2019s Workforce in Next 10 Years, Many Top Executives Say<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/japannews.yomiuri.co.jp\/business\/companies\/20260103-301980\/\">https:\/\/japannews.yomiuri.co.jp\/business\/companies\/20260103-301980\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-03 07:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"japannews.yomiuri.co.jp\">japannews.yomiuri.co.jp<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over 40% of Japanese top executives predict a decrease in their company\u2019s workforce over the next decade mainly due to the impact of generative artificial intelligence (AI).<\/li>\n<li>More than 30% of the executives surveyed utilize generative AI in their management decisions.<\/li>\n<li>Many executives cannot rely entirely on AI for decisions involving ethics, safety, or complex judgments.<\/li>\n<li>Eighteen executives anticipate workforce reductions, with five estimating a 10% or more decrease.<\/li>\n<li>Areas where AI will replace workers include data entry, document preparation, and call center operations.<\/li>\n<li>Fifteen executives do not foresee any impact of generative AI on employment.<\/li>\n<li>Skylark Holdings Co. Chairman Makoto Tani predicts an increase in employees due to AI-driven productivity improvements and business expansion.<\/li>\n<li>Fourteen executives utilize AI for management decisions, particularly for gathering and sorting information.<\/li>\n<li>Executives list various tasks unsuitable for AI, such as hospitality services, face-to-face customer service, entertainment shows, food safety inspections, and expertise-based skilled work.<\/li>\n<li>Opinions vary on the realization timeline of artificial general intelligence, with some predicting it in five years to 10 years or more, and 15 unsure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial Intelligence Will Reduce Japan\u2019s Workforce in Next 10 Years, Many Top Executives Say https:\/\/japannews.yomiuri.co.jp\/business\/companies\/20260103-301980\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/japannews.yomiuri.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/chartai.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[22,20,19],"class_list":["post-174239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-general-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-generative-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174241,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174239\/revisions\/174241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}