retirement

The survey on elderly employment, released Friday, also showed that 61 percent of companies are able to offer part-time positions to such workers.

Reform of the Japanese public pension system in accordance with the nation's aging population is becoming increasingly unavoidable.

Toshiba Corp. said Thursday that one of its subsidiaries saw 414 employees apply for an early retirement plan, surpassing the 350 the company had estimated. Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corp. received applications for the program from workers aged 45 or older between July and ...

The Financial Services Agency decided Wednesday it will no longer make reference to a controversial estimate that a retired couple that lives to be 95 years old would need at least ¥20 million in addition to their benefits under the national public pension system. But ...

Japanese households are rushing to private retirement products after a government report fueled fears that the national pension system won't be enough to support them during old age. SBI Securities Co. and Monex Group Inc. have seen applications for defined contribution pension plans surge since ...

Seniors accounted for 28.4 percent of Japan’s population and 12.9 percent of its labor force in 2018, both record highs, government data shows.

People aged 50 or older and out of the workforce in Japan could increase by 29 percent from 2018, to 59 per 100 people, by 2050, straining public retirement schemes, the OECD said in a recent report that suggested reforms are needed. The Organisation for ...

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday that the government will consider overhauling the public pension system to make sure it is sustainable in the long term, a day after the government projections showed that pension payouts would fall by nearly a fifth in ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe must place priority on resolving several major policy challenges confronting Japan before he tries to revise the Constitution.