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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!

  • Japan – Number of full-time workers grows for the first time in 8 years

    17 Feb 2016 14:05 | JHRS (Administrator)
    The number of permanent employees in Japan grew for the first time in eight years in 2015. Full-time employees grew by 260,000 to 33.04 million in 2015, while the total number of workers including part-time and temporary workers, grew by 440,000 to 52.84 million.


    Source: http://www.staffingindustry.com/

  • Full-time workers on the rise as businesses seek talent

    17 Feb 2016 12:54 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- The number of permanent employees in Japan grew for the first time in eight years in 2015, signaling a change in companies' long-standing preference for part-timers, though expected gains in wages and consumption remain elusive.

    Source: http://asia.nikkei.com/

  • Women starting to climb corporate ladders, but ascent is slow

    10 Feb 2016 12:49 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Women aged around 50 who started working soon after the equal employment opportunity law came into force in Japan in 1986 are now assuming executive positions in major companies.

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

  • More women in late 20s changing jobs

    08 Feb 2016 12:52 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Women in their late 20s — the generation that experienced the “employment ice age” after the Lehman Brothers collapse — are increasingly seeking to change jobs over concerns about work-life balance after marriage and childbirth.

    Source: http://the-japan-news.com/

  • Japanese students participate in job shadow program

    08 Feb 2016 12:38 | JHRS (Administrator)
    Two local junior high school students from Shincho Junior High School in Sagamihara City, job shadowed employees Jan. 14 to 15, from U.S. Army Garrison Japan.


    Source: http://japan.stripes.com/

  • Reforming Japan’s labour market

    02 Feb 2016 12:32 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Japan’s labour market situation is improving. The unemployment rate of 3.1 per cent in October 2015 was the lowest for 20 years. And, although improvement has been slow, wage growth has been accelerating. But Japan’s labour market still faces several serious issues.

    Source: http://www.eastasiaforum.org/

  • Tokyo to boost hiring to better prepare for ’20 Olympics: NHK

    01 Feb 2016 12:48 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has reportedly decided to increase the number of new hires in fiscal 2016 to better prepare for the Olympic Games in the capital in 2020.

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

  • Foreign working population in Japan jumps to record high

    01 Feb 2016 12:37 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The number of foreign workers in Japan totaled 907,896 at the end of October, the most since the government started requiring employers to submit reports on their non-Japanese employees in 2007, the labor ministry said.

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

  • Japan's job availability best in 24 yrs in December

    29 Jan 2016 12:43 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's job availability was at its best level in 24 years in December, the government data showed Friday, as companies sought more workers in an increasingly tight labor market.

    Source: http://asia.nikkei.com/

  • Ministry subsidies to aid elderly employment

    24 Jan 2016 13:11 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry will launch a number of new projects beginning next fiscal year aimed at helping elderly people to work, as part of efforts to realize Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s centerpiece policy of a society in which all 100 million-plus citizens are dynamically engaged.

    Source: http://the-japan-news.com/

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