Japan Labor Issues
Employment, Unemployment
2025
- Advancing Women with Interrupted Careers: Focusing on Women's Motivation for Autonomous Skill Development during Middle Age and Older (PDF:239KB)
- A Comparative Study on Employment Policy Target for Persons with Disabilities: Japan, France, and Germany (PDF:1.0MB)
- The "Long-lasting and Persistent" Labor Shortage since the 2010s—MHLW's White Paper on the Labor Economy 2024 (PDF:709KB)
- Corporate In-house Education and Training and Career Formation in Japan (PDF:836KB)
- Effects of Paternity Leave Take-up Rate in Fathers’ Industry of Work on Mothers’ Employment and Health (PDF:317KB)
2024
- Differences in the Base Salary and Bonus between Re-employed Entrusted Workers (Shokutaku) and Regular Workers, and Violation of the Former
Article 20 of the Labor Contracts Act
The Nagoya Driving School Case (PDF:853KB) - Current Status of the Jobseekers Support System as a Second Safety Net (PDF:1.3MB)
- Measures Required to Achieve Sustainable Wage Hikes: MHLW's White Paper on the Labour Economy 2023 (PDF:1.1MB)
- Changes in Industrial Structure and Work Styles in Japan (PDF:1.9MB)
- Post-Industrialization and Employment Fluidity: A Focus on Workers’ Careers (PDF:955KB)
- Japanese Wives’ Decisions on Co-Residence and Employment Choices upon Husbands’ Workplace Relocation (Tenkin) (PDF:868KB)
- 2023 Shunto: Highest Wage Hike in 30 Years, Yet Its Sustainability a Challenge (PDF:1.3MB)
- Changes in Japanese Policies for Accepting Foreign Workers for the Purpose of Compensating for Labor Shortage (PDF:1.2MB)
2023
- The 6th JILPT Tokyo Comparative Labor Policy Seminar 2023 “Current Situation and Challenges of Inequality in Society: Overcoming Social Divisions towards the Post-COVID-19 Era” (PDF:3.9MB)
- Promoting Labor Mobility with Support for Workers’ Proactive Career Development: MHLW’s White Paper on the Labor Economy 2022 (PDF:959KB)
- Changing Jobs among Middle-aged Workers in Japan: What Affects Workers’ Personnel Treatment and Utilization of Skills and Knowledge at a New Job (PDF:849KB)
- Non-Regular Employment Measures in Japan (PDF:1.2MB)
- Promoting Employment of Older Workers and Adjustment of their Working Conditions at Japanese Firms (PDF:412KB)
- The 2022 Shunto Results and Challenges: Labor and Management Shared a Recognition of the Need for “Investment in People” (PDF:296KB)
- What Causes the Gender Wage Gap in Japan? (PDF:483KB)
- Changes in the Meaning of Work in Japan: A Cross-National Comparison between Developed Countries (PDF:429KB)
- Is Japanese Internship for the Purpose of Education or Recruitment?: A Study of its Historical Background, and Recent Changes and Future Challenges (PDF:436KB)
- Youth Employment and Employment Policies in Japan (PDF:364KB)
2022
- The Kishida Administration’s Near-term Policy Line Focuses on “Investment in People”: Hammering out Measures to Promote Wage Increases and Require Gender Wage Gap Disclosure (PDF:183KB)
- Changes in Work/Life Situations and Psychological Distress during the Prolonged COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan (PDF:381KB)
- A Record 12.65% of Fathers in Japan Took Childcare Leave in 2020
MHLW's Basic Survey of Gender Equality in Employment Management (PDF:441KB) - Overview of Employment Policy in Japan (PDF:250KB)
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Employment and Labor
MHLW's White Paper on the Labor Economy 2021 (PDF:1.38MB) - The Future of the Japanese Long-Term Employment Society: The Consequences of Post-Industrialization and Increase of Unmarried Workers (PDF:2.75MB)
- Why Do Firms Concentrate in Tokyo? An Economic Geography Perspective (PDF:351KB)
- Analysis of Regular Employees Whose Inclination to Change Jobs Has Increased in the COVID-19 Pandemic (PDF:757KB)
- Gender Inequality in Access to Managerial Positions in Japan from a Cross-National Comparative Perspective: The Role of Labor Markets and Welfare States (PDF:1.07MB)
2021
- COVID-19-Related Job Separation and Income Decline in Japan (PDF:802KB)
- Wage Compensation during Leave in the COVID-19 Crisis and Its Impacts on Workers' Careers (PDF:678KB)
- The MHLW Study Group Proposes the Direction of Employment Policy for Post-COVID-19 (PDF:171KB)
- The Fifth Basic Plan for Gender Equality "Toward a Reiwa Society Where All Women and Girls Can Thrive and Achieve Their Full Potential" (PDF:231KB)
- Accommodation and Food Services Workers amid the COVID-19 Crisis in Japan (PDF:695KB)
- Job Separation and Reemployment amid the COVID-19 Crisis in Japan (PDF:1.47MB)
- How Women Bear the Brunt of COVID-19's Damages on Work (Continued, Part II): Catch Up With Men on the Employment Recovery (PDF:1.23MB)
- Labor-management Relations in Japan
Part I: Characteristics of the Collective Labor Relations System (PDF:247KB) - Panel Data Analysis of the Generational Replacement Effect on Employment in Japanese Companies (PDF:354KB)
- How Women Bear the Brunt of COVID-19’s Damages on Work (Continued): The Gender Gap in Employment Recovery (PDF:514KB)
- How Women Bear the Brunt of COVID-19’s Damages on Work (PDF:476KB)
- Impact of the COVID-19 Recession on Full-Time Workers: Shortened Work Hours, Working from Home, and Possible Widening of Income Disparities (PDF:438KB)
2020
- The Employment Adjustment Subsidy and New Assistance for Temporary Leave (PDF:260KB)
- Diminished Non-regular Employment, Solid Regular Employment: What Impacts Did the “First Wave” of the COVID-19 Pandemic Have in Japan? (PDF:307KB)
- 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)
- Research on Job Search Interventions: Examination of the Feasibility of a Cyclical Self-Regulatory Model of Job Search Process Quality (PDF:506KB)
- 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)
- Decreased Working Hours and Impact on Wages: A Look Back at the Novel Coronavirus’s “First Wave” in Japan (PDF:499KB)
- 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)
- 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)
- Wages in Japan
Part III: Wages and Forms of Employment (PDF:332KB) - Spread of the Novel Coronavirus and the Future of Japanese Labor Policy (PDF:207KB)
- Employment Trends and Employment/Labor Measures of Japan Affected by Spread of COVID-19 (PDF:440KB)
- Proposal on Extinctive Prescriptions of Claims for Wages: The Labor Policy Council (PDF:137KB)
- Wages in Japan
Part II: Wages and Size of Company (PDF:365KB) - Challenges Facing Japan: Work Styles and Labor Shortages
MHLW's White Paper on the Labor Economy 2019 (PDF:366KB) - The Latent Structure of the Japanese Labor Market and the Type of Employment: Latent Class Analysis with Finite Mixture Model (PDF:596KB)
- Akiomi Kitagawa, Souichi Ohta, and Hiroshi Teruyama, The Changing Japanese Labor Market: Theory and Evidence (PDF:234KB)
- Thirty Years since JTUC-Rengo's Foundation: Challenges and Prospects for Japan's Labor Movement (PDF:273KB)
- The Slow Decline of the Male-breadwinner Family Model in Contemporary Japan and Its Ramifications for Men's Lives (PDF:236KB)
- Japan's "Employment Ice-age Generation" Today: Investigating the Impact of Instability in the School-to-work Transition (PDF:562KB)
2019
- Long-term Employment as a Social Norm: An Analysis of the JILPT "Survey on Working Life" (1999–2015) (PDF:430KB)
- Policy Challenges for the Introduction of AI and Other New Technologies: Report of MHLW's Committee on Basic Labour Policy (PDF:242KB)
- Current State of Working Hours and Overwork in Japan
Part III: How Can We Prevent Overwork? (PDF:343KB) - Current State of Working Hours and Overwork in Japan
Part II: Why do the Japanese Work Long Hours? (PDF:361KB) - The 3nd JILPT Tokyo Comparative Labor Policy Seminar: "The Future of Women and Work - Policy Responses to Women’s Employment" (PDF:2.03MB)
- Poverty and Income Polarization of Married Stay-at-home Mothers in Japan
Part II: What Drives Japanese Women to Be Full-time Housewives despite Poverty? (PDF:348KB) - Current State of Working Hours and Overwork in Japan
Part I: How Has It Changed Over the Years? (PDF:323KB) - Human Resources Development according to Diversified Working Styles: MHLW's White Paper on the Labor Economy 2018 (PDF:419KB)
- Poverty and Income Polarization of Married Stay-at-home Mothers in Japan
Part I: Historical Perspectives of Japanese Full-time Housewives (PDF:368KB) - Combining Work and Family Care in Japan (Part II): What is the Challenge after Reforming the Long-term Care Leave System? (PDF:973KB)
- Combining Work and Family Care in Japan (Part I): Why do Women Leave Jobs at the Stage of Childbirth? (PDF:342KB)
- Why did Japanese Dual-earner Couples Increase since the Late 1980s? (PDF:594KB)
- The Formulation of Professional and Vocational Universities: Background and Challenges of a New Institutional Type in Japan (PDF:420KB)
- Who Holds Multiple Jobs? Empirical Analysis of Multiple Job Holding Using a Japanese Online Survey (PDF:432KB)
- The Corporate Community and Changes in the Japanese-style Employment System (PDF:406KB)
- Can "Owners" of Convenience Stores be "Workers" under the Japanese Labor Union Act? (PDF:280KB)
2018
- Gender Segregation at Work in Japanese Companies: Focusing on Gender Disparities in Desire for Promotion (PDF:377KB)
- Corporate In-house Education and Training and Career Formation in Japan (Part II): Japanese Companies' Commitment to Employees' Career Formation (PDF:430KB)
- Japan's Employment System and Formation of the "Abuse of the Right to Dismiss" Theory (PDF:229KB)
- Corporate In-house Education and Training and Career Formation in Japan (Part I): In-house Skills Development (PDF:376KB)
- Challenges for Promoting Innovations and Realizing Work-Life Balance: MHLW'S White Paper on the Labor Economy 2017 (PDF:357KB)
- Industry and Female Managers: Insights for Promoting Women's Active Participation in the Workplace (PDF:372KB)
- The 2nd JILPT Tokyo Comparative Labor Policy Seminar: "Looking back at the policy responses to changes in employment structure and forms―The future as seen from here" (PDF:3.15MB)
- Analysis of Japan's Labor Economy 2017 (PDF:879KB)
- Termination of Employment Relationships in Japan (Part II): Dismissal and Refusal to Renew a Fixed-term Contract (PDF:230KB)
- The Future of the Japanese-style Employment System: Continued Long-term Employment and the Challenges It Faces (PDF:1.2MB)
- Employment Quota for Persons with Disabilities at Private Enterprises to be Incrementally Raised to 2.3% (PDF:4.08KB)
- Termination of Employment Relationships in Japan (Part I): Resignation and Termination of Employment Contracts by Mutual Consent (PDF:311KB)
- Rengo Holds 15th Biennial Convention, Re-Elects President Kozu: Aims to Establish "Rengo Vision 2035" as It Nears 30th Anniversary (PDF:228KB)
2017
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