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Trends

Vol.4, No.27

• The Employment Adjustment Subsidy and New Assistance for Temporary Leave (PDF:260KB)
  • Advance Published on October 12, 2020 (PDF:259KB)
    HAMAGUCHI Keiichiro
• Diminished Non-regular Employment, Solid Regular Employment: What Impacts Did the “First Wave” of the COVID-19 Pandemic Have in Japan? (PDF:307KB)
  • Advance Published on October 12, 2020 (PDF:312KB)
    TAKAHASHI Koji

Vol.4, No.26

• Decreased Working Hours and Impact on Wages: A Look Back at the Novel Coronavirus’s “First Wave” in Japan (PDF:499KB)
  TAKAHASHI Koji

Vol.4, No.25

• Student Part-timers as a Subject of Labor Policy (PDF:208KB)
  • Advance Published on July 13, 2020 (PDF:217KB)
    HAMAGUCHI Keiichiro
• Obligating Efforts Concerning Measures to Secure Employment Opportunities up to the Age of 70: Revision of the Act on Stabilization of Employment of Elderly Persons, etc. (PDF:316KB)

Vol.4, No.24

• Spread of the Novel Coronavirus and the Future of Japanese Labor Policy (PDF:207KB)
  HAMAGUCHI Keiichiro
• A Look at Japanese Households Facing Risk of Livelihood Collapse Due to COVID-19 (PDF:304KB)
  ZHOU Yanfei
• Employment Trends and Employment/Labor Measures of Japan Affected by Spread of COVID-19 (PDF:440KB)
  NAKAI Masayuki
• Proposal on Extinctive Prescriptions of Claims for Wages: The Labor Policy Council (PDF:137KB)

Vol.4, No.23

• Challenges Facing Japan: Work Styles and Labor Shortages
  MHLW's White Paper on the Labor Economy 2019 (PDF:366KB)

Vol.4, No.21

• Thirty Years since JTUC-Rengo's Foundation: Challenges and Prospects for Japan's Labor Movement (PDF:273KB)
  OGINO Noboru

Research

Vol.4, No.27

• What Impacts is the COVID-19 Crisis Having on Work and Daily Life? —From the Results of "Survey on the Impact that Spreading Novel Coronavirus Infection has on Work and Daily Life" (May 2020 Survey) (PDF:513KB)
  • Advance Published on October 15, 2020 (PDF:527KB)
• Research on Job Search Interventions: Examination of the Feasibility of a Cyclical Self-Regulatory Model of Job Search Process Quality (PDF:506KB)
  KAYANO Jun

Vol.4, No.26

• A Case Study on Overwork-related Mental Disorders in Japan: Focusing on Young Employees (PDF:429KB)
  TAKAMI Tomohiro

Vol.4, No.25

• Development of the Input Data for the Occupational Information Network of Japan (PDF:528KB)
  KAMAKURA Tetzushi, MATSUBARA Ayako, MATSUMOTO Shinsaku

Vol.4, No.23

• Realities of Restructuring Enterprise Organization in Japan: Frontlines of Industrial Relations (PDF:251KB)
  OH, Hak-Soo

Judgments and Orders

Vol.4, No.27

• Whether a Staff Position in an Automobile Manufacturer Shall Be Deemed "Supervisory or Managerial Employee" Status under the Labor Standards Act: The Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. ("Supervisory or Managerial Employee" Status) Case (PDF:261KB)
  YAMAMOTO Yota

Vol.4, No.26

• Do Educational Loan Programs Exempting Repayment of School Expense Lent by Hospitals on Condition of Working for Certain Periods Violate Article 16 of the Labor Standards Act?: The Kyoyukai Misumi Hospital Case (PDF:297KB)
  • Errata (PDF:74KB)
    HOSOKAWA Ryo (Aoyama Gakuin University)

Vol.4, No.24

• Is an Owner-manager of a Convenience Store a “Worker” under the Labor Union Act?
  The Seven-Eleven Japan Case (PDF:210KB)
  IKEZOE Hirokuni

Vol.4, No.23

• Worker Status of the Joint Enterprise Cooperative Members: The Joint Enterprise Cooperative Workers’ Collective Wadachi Higashimurayama Case (PDF:229KB)
  HAMAGUCHI Keiichiro

Vol.4, No.21

• Legal Liability Regarding "Power Harassment" and the Scope of That Liability: The Fukuda Denshi Nagano Hanbai Case (PDF:197KB)
  TAKIHARA Hiromitsu

Series: Japan's Employment System and Public Policy

Vol.4, No.25

• Wages in Japan
  Part III: Wages and Forms of Employment (PDF:332KB)
  NISHIMURA Itaru

Vol.4, No.24

• Wages in Japan
  Part II: Wages and Size of Company (PDF:365KB)
  NISHIMURA Itaru

Vol.4, No.23

• Wages in Japan
  Part I: Why Does Japanese Wage Curve Have a Strong Seniority Element? (PDF:361KB)
  NISHIMURA Itaru

Vol.4, No.21

• Fringe Benefits (PDF:726KB)
  NAKAMURA Ryoji

Statistical Indicators

• Statistical Indicators Vol.4, No.27, November-December 2020 (PDF:489KB)
• Statistical Indicators Vol.4, No.26, October 2020 (PDF:488KB)
• Statistical Indicators Vol.4, No.25, August-September 2020 (PDF:468KB)
• Statistical Indicators Vol.4, No.24, July 2020 (PDF:245KB)
• Statistical Indicators Vol.4, No.23, May-June 2020 (PDF:254KB)
• Statistical Indicators Vol.4, No.21, February 2020 (PDF:238KB)

Book Review

Vol.4, No.21

• Akiomi Kitagawa, Souichi Ohta, and Hiroshi Teruyama, The Changing Japanese Labor Market: Theory and Evidence (PDF:234KB)
  Arthur Sakamoto (Texas A&M University)

Research Paper

Here is a special feature for two (in No.20, January 2020 and No.22, March-April 2020 issues) including six significant papers selected by the Editorial Office of Japan Labor Issues from various relevant papers published in 2018–2019. These papers address the latest subjects as well as conventional themes on labor in Japan. Each author has arranged the original papers, written in Japanese, in translation for the benefit of overseas readers, which surely will offer useful information and deeper insights into the state of labor in Japan. We sincerely thank authors for their effort for this issue.

Vol.4, No.22

Full Text: Japan Labor Issue Vol.4, No.22, March-April 2020 (PDF:1.21MB)

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ARTICLES

• Legal Issues Surrounding Employment-like Working Styles: Disguised Employment and Dependent Self-employment (PDF:479KB)
  KAMATA Koichi (Toyo University)
• Wage Disparities between Standard and Non-standard Employees: From the Perspective of Human Resource Management (PDF:291KB)
  SHIMANUKI Tomoyuki (Hitotsubashi University)
• The Latent Structure of the Japanese Labor Market and the Type of Employment: Latent Class Analysis with Finite Mixture Model (PDF:596KB)
  SUZUKI Kyoko (The University of Tokyo)

Vol.4, No.20

Full Text: Japan Labor Issue Vol.4, No.20, December 2019-January 2020 (PDF:1.16MB)

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ARTICLES

• Japan’s “Employment Ice-age Generation” Today: Investigating the Impact of Instability in the School-to-work Transition (PDF:562KB)
  Yukie Hori
• The Slow Decline of the Male-breadwinner Family Model in Contemporary Japan and Its Ramifications for Men’s Lives (PDF:236KB)
  Yuko Ogasawara (Nihon University)
• International Comparison of Higher Education Cost Sharing and Japanese Challenges (PDF:474KB)
  Masayuki Kobayashi (The University of Tokyo)

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