This doesn’t mean there wouldn’t also be an ever-growing need to fill skilled labor positions, especially in the technology sector. One of the problems, however is, that most Japanese companies, both SMEs and Multinationals, do not have the experience, skills, and/or the internal policies, procedures, and practices to manage foreign workers. Other issues are the need to adjust to other cultures and working styles, language and the ability to communicate with foreign workers in Japanese. Because of these issues, foreign workers need to have a fairly high level of spoken Japanese and in most cases reading and writing abilities are required as well. This makes it very difficult, if not impossible, to recruit enough foreign workers with the skill sets the company desires.