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This news service contains Japan-related HR news that matter in a nutshell. Guaranteed less than 50 words linked back to its original news source. Great for busy HR pros like you!

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  • Finances are tight for dual-income households too, survey finds

    20 May 2025 05:24 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Almost half of full-time workers whose spouses are working say they are struggling financially, according to a survey released Thursday by job-matching company Mynavi. Financial anxiety was more pronounced among households with children, whose average income was higher, at ¥9.01 million, but still fell short of the desired ¥12.47 million.

    Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp

  • JDI Eyeing Cutting Over 1,000 Jobs in Japan

    20 May 2025 05:21 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Tokyo, May 15 (Jiji Press)--Japan Display Inc., a struggling maker of small and midsize liquid crystal display panels, is considering cutting over 1,000 jobs in the country out of its domestic workforce of about 2,700, people familiar with the matter said Thursday.

    The job cut is part of JDI’s restructuring efforts as the company posted a 10th consecutive year of net loss in the year ended in March 2024.

    Source: https://www.nippon.com

  • Japan’s hiring stays competitive as salaries and benefits fall short

    20 May 2025 05:17 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Hiring challenges persist in Japan as 87% of employers reported losing candidates in the past six months due to uncompetitive salaries and benefits, according to research from Morgan McKinley.

    In 2024, 97% of organizations found recruitment to be ‘Very’ or ‘Quite’ competitive, with key barriers expected to continue into 2025. Employee satisfaction with benefits remains low, with 57% of professionals feeling neutral or dissatisfied with their current packages.

    Source: https://www.staffingindustry.com


  • Japan's jobless rate in FY 2024 falls to 2.5% amid labor shortage

    20 May 2025 05:14 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO - Japan's average unemployment rate in fiscal 2024 fell 0.1 percentage point from a year earlier to 2.5 percent, marking the first improvement in two years, amid a labor shortage, government data showed Friday.

    In the fiscal year through March, the number of unemployed people decreased 30,000 to 1.75 million and the number of those with jobs grew 370,000 to 67.93 million, the highest level since comparable data became available in 1953, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications said.

    Source : https://english.kyodonews.net

  • Disaster public housing complexes in Sendai work to boost interactions

    22 Apr 2025 05:21 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Fourteen years after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, disaster public housing complexes are seeing more residents who are older and people who weren’t hit by the disaster moving in.

    Residents in such housing complexes in Sendai are working with volunteers to run a children’s cafeteria and organize other events to provide opportunities for people of different generations to strengthen ties within their community.

    Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp


  • University Students Fill Key Role in Teaching Japanese to Foreign Children, as Japan Welcomes More Workers from Abroad

    22 Apr 2025 05:17 | JHRS (Administrator)

    More and more university students are teaching children with foreign roots the Japanese language, and working to create places for them to feel comfortable.

    Amid a shortage of teachers for Japanese as a second language, students studying Japanese language education at universities are working actively in the field, and putting what they have learned into practice.

    Source: https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp


  • Amid labor shortage, Japan approves guidelines to upskill foreign workers

    27 Mar 2025 02:30 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The government on Tuesday approved guidelines for a refurbished plan to support development of foreign workers into skilled workers, expected to kick off in 2027, in hope of resolving Japan’s chronic labor shortage.

    The new initiative replaces the current foreign trainee program, which has often been criticized for bad working conditions and participants being used as cheap labor.

    Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp


  • About 30% of major Japanese companies using AI for recruiting, poll says

    27 Mar 2025 02:24 | JHRS (Administrator)

    About 30% of major Japanese companies have introduced or plan to introduce artificial intelligence in their employee recruitment activities, according to a survey by Jiji Press.

    Of the 100 major companies surveyed, eight said that they will use AI to recruit students who will graduate in spring 2026, while 21 companies said they have already introduced AI.

    Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp


  • Record 92.6 Pct of Graduating Students in Japan Secure Jobs

    17 Mar 2025 12:52 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Tokyo, March 14 (Jiji Press)--A government report showed Friday that a record 92.6 pct of job-seeking college students graduating in Japan this month had received informal employment offers as of Feb. 1.

    Amid serious manpower shortages in the country, the job-securing rate rose 1 percentage point from a year earlier to the level unseen since comparable data were made available in 2000.

    Source: https://www.nippon.com

  • Job-hunting students continue to face sexual harassment in Japan

    13 Mar 2025 10:54 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO - Students interviewing for graduate jobs in Japan continue to be sexually harassed by recruiters, highlighting a failure of attempts to eradicate the problem and the power imbalance that endures despite companies' desperation to fill roles amid the country's labor shortage.

    Source: https://english.kyodonews.net

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