RIYADH: Japan is expected to have 270,000 artificial intelligence and Internet of Things (IoT) job vacancies in 2030 with no one to fill them, Nikkei Asia reported. Japan's shortage of speciality IT workers is predicted to be 13 times more acute by then than it was in 2018, according to the newspaper. Companies are trying to take up the slack by educating cutting-edge IT engineers themselves. Japanese multinational air conditioning manufacturing company Daikin Industries will set up an in-house university in cooperation with Osaka University to produce 1,500 AI and IoT professionals by 2023. Z Holdings, the parent company of Yahoo Japan, will increase its workforce of AI engineers by 5,000 or so through 2025.