The new Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe aims to carry out drastic reforms to the nation's labor and education systems in a bid to wean the country off its "one-track" career tradition as the population rapidly ages, the newly appointed economic revitalization minister ...
It's time to assess the very real impact of technology's advances on those who will lose their jobs today as the "jobs of tomorrow" are created.
Japanese companies continue to face severe labor shortages, with job availability improving further in June to the tightest level in over four decades while the unemployment rate declined, government data showed Friday. The seasonally adjusted job availability rate improved to 1.51 from 1.49 in May, ...
Job availability rose to its highest level in over four decades in May, government data showed Friday, highlighting evidence that labor is in short supply. The country's jobless rate rose to 3.1 percent in May from 2.8 percent in April, partly because people quit their ...
Japan's top firms started holding interviews and examinations Thursday as they kicked off their annual recruitment drive for university students expected to graduate in spring 2018. Many of the companies are likely to give applicants informal job offers early this month as they battle for ...
Convincing teenagers in Japan that working for a giant 116-year-old manufacturer is a sexy career choice seems like a tough sell. It's even more difficult if the target audience can't figure out the company's name. That's the challenge for Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. ...
Japan’s economy logs 0.5 percent growth in the first three months of 2017, marking five consecutive quarters of expansion.
The efficiencies of robots will create more purchasing power for other spending or new products that, in turn, create more jobs.
Whether to give nonregular workers permanent status has bedeviled companies and employees alike, especially with the end of a five-year waiting period on a labor law revision looming in less than a year.
Most nonregular workers are unaware of a new rule that enables them to work until mandatory retirement age after spending five years at the same company, an online survey has shown. The rule, included in the revised labor contract law that was enacted in April ...
The tightest labor market in decades is showing signs of reversing a long shift toward the hiring of temporary workers. The number of full-time permanent workers in Japan is rising for the first time since the global financial crisis, outpacing growth in temporary jobs over ...
