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  • 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

  • Foreign students in Japan struggle with language barriers, job access

    04 Mar 2025 04:29 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Foreign students in Japan have continued to face hurdles in securing employment, largely due to language barriers and the country’s unique hiring practices.

    Despite an increase in the number of international students following the COVID-19 pandemic, many find navigating the job market difficult.

    Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com

  • Japan’s Foreign Workers Hit New Record of 2.3 Million

    27 Feb 2025 23:34 | JHRS (Administrator)

    As of October 2024, foreign workers in Japan totaled 2.3 million, up 12.4% or around 250,000 year on year. The figure, announced by the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare in January 2025, is the highest since 2008, when data was first compiled.

    Source: https://www.nippon.com

  • Seniors and Women Boost Japan’s Labor Force to Record High

    19 Feb 2025 17:23 | JHRS (Administrator)

    According to Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications’ Labor Force Survey, the number of people employed in 2024 reached a record-high 67.8 million, an increase of 340,000 from the previous year. This is the highest figure recorded since 1953, when comparable data became available. The category is defined as including people aged 15 and older who are currently working or temporarily on leave from their jobs.

    Source: https://www.nippon.com

  • No. of foreign workers in Japan hits new record of 2.3 million

    07 Feb 2025 06:40 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO - The number of foreign employees in Japan reached a record 2.3 million as of the end of last October, maintaining a growth rate of 12.4 percent, the same as the previous year, government data showed Friday, as the nation continues to attract labor despite the weak yen.

    Source: https://english.kyodonews.net

  • Job-hopping Japanese workers push salaries higher

    07 Feb 2025 06:26 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Job mobility in Japan has traditionally been low due to lifetime employment arrangements and strong labor laws. Even in recent years, as lifetime employment has been ending as a practice and as a preference, workers have been loath to jump ship.

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


  • Japan to ease financial burden of foreign trainees with new program

    27 Jan 2025 01:17 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- Japan will work to ease the financial burden of foreign nationals coming to work in the country under a new government employment program, Nikkei has learned.

    The program, dubbed Employment for Skill Development, limits fees paid by foreign workers to recruitment agencies in their home countries to two months of their salary in Japan.

    Source: https://asia.nikkei.com


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