World shares are mostly higher, with financial markets shrugging off U.S. tariff pressures on its trading partners.

Now, as Japan faces a rapidly aging and shrinking workforce, employees have more leverage to find work elsewhere.

Japan exported 107.1 trillion yen ($729 billion) in goods last year, according to Finance Ministry statistics. Exports bound for the U.S. reached 21.3 trillion yen, accounting for about 20% of the ...