As a special service to JHRS members like you, we are pleased to inform you of the following latest information on publications, research reports, and statistics from The Japan Institute for Labor Productivity and Training or JILPT (an agency of the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare or MHLW). We hope that you find this useful in your business and HR profession.

◆ Japan Labor Review, Volume 11, Number 3, Summer 2014
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The Japan Labor Review is a quarterly journal of research in the field  of labor studies. For the purpose of providing valuable information on Japanese labor issues to the broad range of overseas readers, articles are selected, edited and published by an editorial board of the JILPT.

 Main theme of this issue:
 "Japan's High Economic Growth and Labor"

 【Contents】
    ▽Introduction

    ▽Articles
      ・High Economic Growth and Human Capital: Conditions for Sustained Growth
      ・Japan's Period of High Economic Growth and Science and Technology Education:
       The Role of Higher Education Institutions
      ・Japanese-Style Human Resource Management and Its Historical Origins
      ・Labor-Management Relations during High Economic Growth: Japanese-Style
       Labor-Management Relations
      ・High Economic Growth and Labor Law: Reciprocal Construction of the Japanese-Style

       Employment System and Labor Law

    ▽Article Based on Research Report
      ・Research on Difficult Situations in Employment Placement Service

    ▽JILPT Research Activities

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◆ JILPT Research Reports
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 We publish Research Reports as a result of various researches and studies
 conducted, originally in Japanese.

 English summaries of selected reports are also available on our website.

   ◇No.159 Summary
     Women Fighting to Balance Between Child-rearing and Work
     undefined Re-analysis of the JILPT National Survey of Households with Children 2011 undefined

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◆ Statistics
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  ◇Main Labor Economic Indicators, June 2014
       http://www.jhrs.org/jilpt

  ◇Recent Statistical Survey Reports, June 2014
       http://www.jhrs.org/jilpt