During an extended period of economic recession for most of the 1990s, broad and striking changes have been made to the Japanese employment system. How fundamental or reversible they are is harder to evaluate.

This paper discusses the Japanese employment system and its changes. It is concluded that if the economic recovery prevails, a considerable stabilization of Japanese human resource practices can be expected, although at a higher level of market-oriented flexibility than previously existed.

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