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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!

  • Foreign workers in Japan can switch jobs in 1 to 2 years under plan

    01 Dec 2023 03:16 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- Foreign workers in a new international trainee program that Japan plans to launch may be able to switch jobs after up to two years, according to a new proposal published by an expert government panel Wednesday.

    Japan is currently designing a replacement for the troubled technical intern program, which has come under fire for low pay and labor abuses. Among the chief complaints are that interns cannot move to a different employer except under extraordinary circumstances.

    Source: https://asia.nikkei.com

  • Japan govt. panel submits report on new training program for foreign workers

    01 Dec 2023 03:13 | JHRS (Administrator)

    A Japanese government panel has submitted a report to the justice minister, proposing the introduction of a new on-the-job training program for foreign workers.

    The panel of experts compiled the report last week.

    The report recommends abolishing the existing initiative for foreign technical trainees, which was cited for labor abuses, and replacing it with the new program.

    Source: https://www3.nhk.or.jp

  • MAJORITY OF SENIOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS SECURE JOBS (THE JAPAN NEWS)

    01 Dec 2023 03:12 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Nearly 75% of university students in Japan who are set to graduate next spring have secured jobs, reports The Japan News, citing research from the labour and education ministries.

    Source: https://www2.staffingindustry.com

  • 75％ of Senior Univ. Students Secure Jobs

    24 Nov 2023 23:24 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Nearly 75% of university students set to graduate in Japan next spring have secured jobs, the labor and education ministries said Friday.

    As of Oct. 1, 74.8% of job-hunting students had received informal job offers, with the employment offer rate for spring graduates up 0.7 percentage point from a year earlier.

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

  • Japan Job Fair 2023 draws Vietnamese students

    16 Nov 2023 00:29 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Nearly 30 leading Japanese corporations and firms are recruiting over 2,500 employees and interns in Japan and Japanese affiliates at the Japan Job Fair 2023 in Ho Chi Minh City on November 4.

    The event was held in both in-person and online formats by the Vietnam-Japan Institute of Technology (VJIT) and the Business Cooperation Centre under the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HUTECH), in collaboration with Japan’s Pasona group and the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.


    Source: https://en.vietnamplus.vn

  • Japan service activity posts slowest growth this year – PMI

    16 Nov 2023 00:22 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO – Japan’s services activity expanded at the slowest pace this year in October, a business survey showed on Monday, reinforcing concerns that the key sector propelling economic growth is continuing to soften. The final au Jibun Bank Service purchasing managers’ index (PMI) fell to 51.6 in October from 53.8 in September, beset by weak demand.

    Source: https://www.msn.com

  • Toddlers are put to work spreading cheer at Japanese nursing home

    13 Nov 2023 17:29 | JHRS (Administrator)

    KITAKYUSHU, Japan — Once a week, Rena Shinohara heads off to work, clocking in for a shift at a job one could say she was born to do.

    Loneliness is such an acute problem that in 2021 the Japanese government appointed its first “minister of loneliness,” charged with helping people of all ages connect especially after the Covid-19 pandemic. 

    Source: https://www.nbcnews.com


  • Japan's gangs hiring online

    13 Nov 2023 17:25 | JHRS (Administrator)

    RISA Yamada grew up fatherless and struggled to find consistent work until she stumbled on an intriguing job listing: one of a growing number of advertisements posted on social media by Japanese criminal gangs.

    Hired to impersonate a police officer, she thrived, wheedling hundreds of thousands of dollars out of Japan's many lonely, wealthy and naive elderly people on the phone.

    Source: https://www.nst.com.my


  • Japan to add driving to specified foreign worker skills

    30 Oct 2023 15:57 | JHRS (Administrator)

    In a bid to ease driver shortages, the transport ministry is working with relevant government agencies to add driving buses as a specified skill to the specified skilled foreign worker program, minister Tetsuo Saito said Tuesday.

    "We'll make various efforts to ensure that local residents and tourists have access to necessary means of transportation," Saito told a news conference.

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


  • Japanese government grant to support work on new ispace lunar lander

    28 Oct 2023 14:36 | JHRS (Administrator)

    LAS VEGAS — The Japanese government is providing ispace with $80 million to help fund development of a new lunar lander in parallel with a similar effort by the company’s U.S. subsidiary.

    Tokyo-based ispace said Oct. 20 that it won an innovation grant from the government’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) worth up to 12 billion yen ($80 million) for work on what the company calls the Series 3 lunar lander that will be ready for launch by 2027.

    Source: https://spacenews.com


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