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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 to require foreign workers arriving on new visas to submit medical certificates

    11 Mar 2019 16:10 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The Justice Ministry plans to require foreign workers entering the country using new working visas to submit medical certificates, sources with knowledge of the matter have said.

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

  • Japan to step up oversight of employers hiring foreign interns

    10 Mar 2019 15:50 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- Japan will strengthen monitoring of businesses that hire foreign workers under a government-administered technical training program, moving to crack down on illegal overtime hours and nonpayment of wages amid a labor shortage.

    Source: https://asia.nikkei.com/

  • Job-hunting begins for Japan's spring 2020 graduates amid labor crunch

    01 Mar 2019 15:57 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Companies started Friday to offer employment seminars for third-year university students due to graduate in spring 2020, marking the opening of the last job-hunting season under the rules set by Japan’s biggest business lobby.

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

  • January jobless rate edges up as more Japanese women quit jobs to look for better opportunities

    01 Mar 2019 15:56 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The unemployment rate edged up 0.1 percentage point from the previous month to 2.5 percent in January, reflecting a rising number of women quitting their jobs for better positions amid the tightest labor market in decades, government data showed Friday.

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


  • No systematic cover-up of faulty jobs data at labor ministry, investigative panel says

    27 Feb 2019 15:54 | JHRS (Administrator)

    A panel investigating faulty jobs data denied Wednesday that there had been a systematic cover-up at the labor ministry, saying top bureaucrats had been unaware monthly labor surveys were “conducted improperly” for almost 15 years.

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


  • Japan to ease language requirements for foreign nursing care trainees amid sluggish growth in applications

    21 Feb 2019 15:56 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The central government plans to ease language requirements for foreign technical interns in the nursing care sector as part of its efforts to bring in more laborers from abroad, government sources have said.

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

  • Employers, foreign trainees lack info on new residency statuses beginning in April

    19 Feb 2019 15:55 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Many Japanese employers and potential foreign workers are still lacking information on new residency statuses the government is set to introduce in less than two months, even though the Justice Ministry has begun some briefing sessions. 

    Source: https://mainichi.jp/

  • Japanese companies warming up — slowly — to four-day workweek

    12 Feb 2019 16:27 | JHRS (Administrator)

    As of 2018, according to a labor ministry survey, 6.9 percent of privately held companies with 30 or more full-time employees had introduced the system in some form. A decade ago, the figure was 3.1 percent.

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

  • Japanese cities worried about receiving more foreign workers: survey

    11 Feb 2019 16:28 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO--Nearly half of cities and towns across Japan are concerned about how to provide appropriate treatment to foreign workers as they prepare for an influx after this spring with the government's new policy on addressing a chronic labor shortage, a survey conducted by Kyodo News showed Sunday.

    Source: https://japantoday.com/

  • Japan's female employment tops 50% for 1st time in half-century

    02 Feb 2019 14:02 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- For the first time in five decades, over half of Japan's women were employed in 2018, new data showed Friday, amid a worsening labor shortage and continuing efforts to accommodate working mothers.

    Source: https://asia.nikkei.com/

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