Data shows women still struggling to advance in Japan's corporate world
Only a tiny fraction of female workers have been able to snag top roles at public, private and nonprofit organizations in Japan, according to data from Teikoku Databank Ltd. released earlier this week. The percentage of company presidents who are women was just 7.8 percent ...
Record 98% of Japan's university graduates land jobs amid recovering economy
Aided by firms’ increasing appetite for recruitment, the rate of university students seeking jobs also increased to 75.3 percent, the highest on record.
Acute shortages of manpower in Japan are prompting changes in the country's labor market, and a new rule to facilitate the conversion of fixed-term contract workers into indefinite-term employees will come into full force in April. The status conversion rule was included in the revised ...
The past five years of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's much-touted "womenomics" measures, aimed at advancing female economic empowerment, have shown clear-cut progress, with about 70 percent of Japanese women and girls aged between 15 to 64 now being employed or seeking jobs. Efforts to further ...
Majority of job-seeking university students put off by AI-powered candidate screening
As more companies turn to artificial intelligence to discover new talent, a recent survey has shown that a majority of job-seeking university students don't want their abilities judged by the technology. About 67.5 percent of 1,258 university and graduate students slated to graduate in March ...
A new government policy that enourages companies to allow employees to have side jobs raises several important issues.
Japan sees foreign workers climb to record 1.28 million as labor crunch continues
Japan’s population of foreign workers has grown 18 percent on year, led by Chinese and a surge in Vietnamese entrants.
Is artificial intelligence killing Japan's banks?
As part of an ongoing series about artificial intelligence, the Asahi Shimbun on Jan. 11 published a story that asserts the financial industry has adopted AI more readily than any other. Because finance is a data-driven endeavor, designing AI software to do things such ...
Japan's real, or inflation-adjusted average wages, grew 0.1 percent in November from a year earlier for the first rise in 11 months, on the back of a continued increase in overall wages, the labor ministry said Tuesday. Average total cash earnings per worker, including base ...
Workers in Japan may see 1% pay raise in 2018 as labor crunch intensifies
Workers will see a 1 percent increase in their total earnings next year, the most since 1997, as rising profits and the tightest labor market in decades add upward pressure on pay, a Bloomberg survey shows. "The labor shortage is definitely getting more serious," said ...
While many people believe that technological progress and job destruction are accelerating dramatically, there is no evidence of either trend.
Japan's fresh grads falling further behind in pay race as monthly wage averages ¥213,000
What's a university degree worth in Japan? About ¥2.9 million a year based on starting salaries for new graduates, and the figure has barely budged over the past decade. That's about half what their counterparts start out on in the U.S., where pay for new ...
