Certified Expert (Foreign Talent Recruitment & Retention Support): Yoshiro Nabeshima

■ Outline President, CONVI Inc.
Specialized domain: Foreign talent recruitment and retention support
Qualifications: Master of Arts (Human Sciences); Member, Japan Society of Educational Sociology; Lead Committee Member, Foreign Employment Promotion Division, Osaka Food Service Industry Association; Ambassador, BNI Osaka City North Region

■ Details Yoshiro served for 13 years as a full-time faculty member specializing in human-rights issues at Osaka City University (now Osaka Metropolitan University). In 2008, an Indonesian university professor asked him, "Why won't Japanese companies hire graduates who majored in Japanese?" — a question that led him to create an internship business helping young people who love Japan and study Japanese seriously make their dreams come true. On the strength of these results, from 2013 to 2015 he was commissioned by Osaka Prefecture to run its international-student promotion project in Indonesia. In 2015 he established companies in both Japan and Indonesia, and has since developed businesses that send human resources from Indonesia to Japan in a variety of forms. People have the freedom to move across borders. The economy of the future will generate not only a flow of goods and money but also a global circulation of people. Within that, he pursues a form of global employment and human-resource business grounded in human dignity.