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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 women also face ‘maternity harassment’

    07 Jul 2014 12:12 | JHRS (Administrator)

    In line with Japan’s child-care leave law, Aimee took a year off from her job as a business coach when her son was born last year. Having recently secured a place for her son at a public day-care center, she was looking forward to returning to work. On her first day back, however, Aimee’s boss called her into his office and told her that her services were no longer required.

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

  • Japanese Base Pay Rises for First Time in More Than Two Years

    01 Jul 2014 12:42 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO—Average wages excluding extra payments increased in Japan for the first time in more than two years in May, reflecting recent growth in the number of high-paying full-time jobs.

    Source: http://online.wsj.com/

  • Japan’s unemployment rate at 16-year low, employment levels highest since 1992

    28 Jun 2014 12:45 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Tokyo: Japan's unemployment rate hit a 16-year low in May, suggesting the economy will rebound in the third quarter from a sales tax hike and consequent slump in consumer spending.

    Source: http://firstbiz.firstpost.com/

  • Japan May job availability up to 1.09, best in 22 years

    27 Jun 2014 12:47 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Japan's job availability improved in May to its best level in around 22 years, while the unemployment rate fell to 3.5 percent, its lowest level in more than 16 years, with companies willing to hire more workers on the back of an economic recovery, the government said Friday.

    Source: http://www.globalpost.com/

  • Japan Jobs Market Improves, Inflation Slows

    27 Jun 2014 12:36 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO—Japan's economy added jobs at an impressive clip according to the latest official data, underscoring the progress Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is making in putting the economy on a solid growth path.

    Source: http://online.wsj.com/

  • Ending Japan’s sexism requires men to lean in, too

    21 Jun 2014 14:54 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The Tokyo assemblywoman two days ago urged colleagues to budget assistance for women struggling to balance work and child rearing, and to offer funding for fertility treatments undefined sage advice one would think in a fast-aging nation where pets now outnumber children. The response from male members of Abe’s own Liberal Democratic Party? Sexist jeers. “You’re the one who needs to get married,” shouted one member, reports said. “Can’t you even bear a child,” yelled another.

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

  • Sagawa Express to Hire 10,000 Housewives in Two Years

    20 Jun 2014 14:59 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Sagawa Express Co. said it planned to hire 10,000 housewives as part-time workers in the next two years. They would comprise more than 20% of Sagawa’s delivery crew.

    Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/

  • ‘Womenomics’ push raises suspicions for lack of reality

    16 Jun 2014 12:42 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may be a political hawk who believes Japan can once again become a macho state that can hold its own against regional threats, but as he looks for money and muscle he is turning to an unlikely source: women.

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

  • The thrill of the job won’t pay the rent

    16 Jun 2014 12:38 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Last January, NHK’s nightly in-depth news series, “Closeup Gendai,” ran a feature about the practice of “poeticizing” (poemu-ka) the harsher aspects of life. It’s not a trend that’s easy to explain, and the program used an event called Izakaya Koshien as an illustration. A food service industry convention invites izakaya (drinking establishments) from all over Japan to send employees who present their ideas for “making Japan feel good.” On stage, staff from the businesses they represent declaimed in stylized speech how much they love their work and how it fulfills their “dreams.” The most convincing presentation won a prize.

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

  • Japan’s salarymen are bored to tears

    09 Jun 2014 14:44 | JHRS (Administrator)

    It seems odd to be talking about boredom in such interesting times. Are you bored? Almost certainly you are, if Spa! magazine’s insights are reliable. Polling 2,052 mid-career (age 35-45), moderately prosperous (annual income ¥4 million-¥6 million) businessmen (sic, men only), it found no fewer than 85 percent confessing to being bored at work.

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

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