Ngu Thazin wanted to leave her war-torn country for a better future. Yet she gladly took a job in Japan changing diapers and bathing residents at a nursing home in a midsize city. “And I want to send my family money.”Japan desperately needs people like Ms. Thazin to fill jobs left open by a declining and aging population. The number of foreign workers has quadrupled since 2007, to more than two million, in a country of 125 million people. Many of these workers escaped low wages, political repression or armed conflict in their home countries.

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Persons: Ngu Thazin, ”, Thazin Locations: Japan, Myanmar, midsize, “, ” Japan