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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 Inc. steps up hunt for full-time workers

    31 May 2017 14:25 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- Japanese companies are increasing hiring of full-time employees as they scramble to secure workers amid a labor shortage, raising hopes that the tight demand will translate to higher wages.

    Source: http://asia.nikkei.com/

  • In Japan, single mothers struggle with poverty and a ‘culture of shame’

    28 May 2017 14:13 | JHRS (Administrator)
    OSAKA, Japan — The country suffered a “lost decade,” and then another one, after its bubble burst some 25 years ago. To this day, despite Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s efforts to reinvigorate it, Japan’s economy remains in the doldrums.


    Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/


  • To reduce work stress, Japan firms turn to office cats, dogs and goats

    25 May 2017 14:15 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Workaholic Japan is known for long office hours and stressed-out employees, but one company claims to have a cure: cats. A total of nine fluffy felines eat, sleep and walk freely in the small office of IT firm Ferray in Tokyo.

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

  • Japan’s shrinking population: Aging nation faces shortage of workers

    21 May 2017 14:10 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Japan is the world’s senior citizen. Decades of improving life expectancy and falling birth rates have produced a rapidly aging and shrinking population. The demographic shift is threatening the existence of rural communities, contributing to a ballooning public debt and starving the economy of labor.

    Source: http://www.thejakartapost.com/

  • Japanese robotics startups look to foreign talent

    21 May 2017 14:00 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- Foreign software engineers and other information technology specialists are increasingly joining Japan's robotics startups. They believe the industry offers them ample opportunity to put their skills into action as Japanese industry is willing to adopt more robots. Lack of engineers in Japan is also prompting startups to look overseas for talent.

    Source: http://asia.nikkei.com/

  • Japan sees record employment for univ. graduates amid labor shortage

    19 May 2017 13:56 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A record-high 97.6 percent of new university graduates in Japan have landed jobs as of the April 1 start of the 2017 business year, government data showed Friday, reflecting demand from companies amid the nation's labor shortage.

    Source: http://asia.nikkei.com/

  • Can Japan, land of lifetime employment, handle the rise of freelancers?

    14 May 2017 13:35 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The rise of freelancing represents a significant shift from Japan’s traditional lifetime employment system. After serving as the main pillar of the postwar labor system for decades, lifetime employment has virtually collapsed amid the multiple recessions brought on by the bubble economy’s implosion in the early 1990s and the 2008 global financial crisis.

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

  • Govt names over 300 companies, in bid to prevent abuses and death by overwork

    13 May 2017 13:41 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO • The Japanese government has for the first time released a nationwide list of over 300 companies that have violated labour laws, hoping this name-and-shame tactic would help eliminate abuses and prevent "karoshi", or death by overwork.

    Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/

  • Companies squirm as tricky labor law revision on switching employment status closes in

    08 May 2017 13:37 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The issue of whether to give nonregular workers permanent status has bedeviled companies and employees alike, especially with the end of a five-year waiting period on a labor law revision looming in less than a year.

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

  • Survey: Female workers in managerial jobs rise to 8.3%

    05 May 2017 12:31 | JHRS (Administrator)

    About 80 percent of major companies in Japan have increased the proportion of female employees in managerial posts — meaning section chief or higher — since the Law on Promotion of Women’s Participation and Advancement in the Workplace was enforced in April 2016, according to a Yomiuri Shimbun survey.

    Source: http://www.the-japan-news.com/

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