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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’s Abe: Too few women in boardrooms

    19 Apr 2013 18:01 | JHRS (Administrator)
    The request was polite and the scale was hardly European in ambition, but Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe moved Friday to compel corporate Japan to promote more women to executive roles, asking business leaders to set a target of at least one female executive per company.

    Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/

  • Japan Steel Works Falls as Employees Take Time Off: Tokyo Mover

    15 Apr 2013 18:11 | JHRS (Administrator)

    About 500 workers, or 70 percent of the total workforce at the Muroran plant on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, have accepted a proposal by the company to take about two days off a month for the six months starting mid April, spokesman Akito Aiuchi said today by telephone, confirming the Nikkei newspaper’s report on April 13.

    Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/

  • Companies in Japan monitor workers via smartphone

    10 Apr 2013 12:00 | JHRS (Administrator)

    In January the Tokyo-based company provided smartphones to all of its 20 employees who regularly visit customers. As each smartphone is installed with an app that transmits its location to a specified terminal using the Global Positioning System, the company can easily find out where each employee is at any given time, often down to the names of buildings.

    Source: http://www.asiaone.com/

  • Kirin implements ‘work at home’ system

    09 Apr 2013 13:45 | JHRS (Administrator)

    According to a report in the Nikkan Kogyo paper, employees who have worked more than three years will be eligible to work from home once a week, four times a month. The work period at home will be from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. (including one-hour break). Employees report when they start and finish to their boss via email or phone.

    Source: http://www.japantoday.com/

  • Toshiba to hire 100 female executives

    01 Apr 2013 18:43 | JHRS (Administrator)
    Japanese electronics giant Toshiba said it would hire 100 female managers within the next two years in an effort to diversify their executive ranks.

  • 840,000 new recruits in Japan mark 1st day at work

    01 Apr 2013 12:26 | JHRS (Administrator)
    An estimated 840,000 new recruits nationwide marked their first day of work Monday at the start of Japan's new fiscal year, after surviving a difficult job-hunting season amid severe economic conditions.

    Source: http://newsonjapan.com/

  • Japan jobless rate up, prices, manufacturing fall

    29 Mar 2013 18:40 | JHRS (Administrator)
    TOKYO (AP) - Japan's jobless rate edged higher and industrial production fell slightly in February as consumer prices also fell, underscoring the fragility of the recovery of the world's third-largest economy.

    Source:http://news.yahoo.com/

  • Firms preparing for continued employment of elderly staff

    23 Mar 2013 12:21 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Companies are gearing up for the implementation next month of a law that will oblige them to continue employing all workers who wish to stay on until age 65.

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

  • Companies demanding strategic experience in Japan's selective job market

    22 Mar 2013 15:16 | JHRS (Administrator)
    Companies in Japan are hiring back-office professionals with strategic skill sets despite a rise in offshoring activity according to the recently released 2013 Salary Survey by Robert Walters.

    Source: http://www.japantoday.com/

  • Livesense May Raise Fees as Japanese Job Market Improves

    22 Mar 2013 15:13 | JHRS (Administrator)
    “The number of job openings is increasing, as money is starting to circulate” in the world’s third-largest economy, Taichi Murakami, Livesense’s president and founder, said in an interview in Tokyo. Japan’s jobless rate dropped to 4.2 percent in January from 4.3 percent in December in an indication that newly elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s drive to boost the economy with anti-deflation policies may be paying off.

    Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/

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