Fired Japan education ministry official gets suspended sentence for drug abuse
A court on Monday sentenced a former education ministry official to two years in prison, suspended for four years, for using and possessing a stimulant drug. The Tokyo District Court ruled that Mitsuhiro Fukuzawa, 44, had violated the stimulant drug control law by using a ...
Japan's civil servants get nod for sixth consecutive wage hike
The National Personnel Authority has advised the Cabinet and Diet to raise salaries and bonuses for national government employees in fiscal 2019. It will be the sixth consecutive pay hike for civil servants. The agency on Wednesday called for raising monthly salaries by an average ...
New law bans indoor smoking at Japan's government buildings and schools
A new law targeting smoking took effect Monday banning people from lighting up indoors on government agency, school and hospital premises, with more establishments like bars and restaurants to face similar rule changes next year. Under the revised Health Promotion Law, fines of up to ...
Setting record, 31.5% of those who passed Japan's public servant exam this year were women
Women accounted for 31.5 percent of those who passed the career-track national public servant examination in fiscal 2019, topping 30 percent for the first time, the National Personnel Authority said Tuesday. Of the 1,798 who passed, 567 were women. The share exceeded by 4.3 percentage ...
Japan passes law to beef up checks on hiring of workers with disabilities after quota scandal
The Diet on Friday passed a bill to strengthen monitoring of the hiring of disabled workers after government ministries and agencies were found last year to have inflated their hiring figures to meet legal quotas for national-level public bodies. The revised law on promoting the ...
Record 35.4% of new hires for Japan's civil service are women, exceeding government target
The Japanese government hired 2,876 women in fiscal 2019, lifting their ratio to all hires beyond its previous high of 34.5 percent marked in fiscal 2016.
754 pass Japanese government's first unified hiring exam for people with disabilities
A total of 754 candidates have passed the government's first unified employment examination for people with disabilities, according to the National Personnel Authority. The examination started early last month and the list of successful applicants was announced Friday. They will start working as civil servants ...
The number of disabled employees at 35 of the 43 state institutions stood below the level required by law as of June 1 this year, the welfare ministry said Tuesday. The actual hiring rate for people with disabilities stood at 1.22 percent, falling short of ...
Japanese government starts accepting exam applications from people with disabilities
The National Personnel Authority began accepting applications on Monday for the first-ever unified examinations to hire people with disabilities as government workers. The exams will be conducted in the wake of an investigation that found central government ministries and agencies had padded the number of ...
An investigation uncovers evidence that the practice started decades ago.
The government is depriving depriving people with disabilities of the job opportunities they deserve.
The revelation of government malpractice in the mandatory employment of people with disabilities should trigger more discussions on what's needed to promote hiring of these people so they can give full play to their potential in the nation's workforce.
