paid holidays

Business Mar 4, 2016

Japan's major business lobby to urge workers to take more holidays

Japan's most influential business lobby pledged Friday to urge its member firms to have employees take more holidays in a bid to boost the tourism industry. In a dialogue with the government, the chief of the Japan Business Federation, better known as Keidanren, said the ...

Editorials Feb 14, 2015

Miserly use of vacation days

Japan may be the most miserly country in the world when it comes to getting workers to feel free to use their legally entitled number of paid holidays each year.

Editorials Nov 30, 2013

Employees temper claims to holidays

The government's plan to make sure full-time regular employees take their paid holidays has apparently failed. A survey shows that workers claimed even fewer holidays in 2012 than they did in 2011.