Japan Labor Issues
Human resource development, Vocational ability development
2025
- Advancing Women with Interrupted Careers: Focusing on Women's Motivation for Autonomous Skill Development during Middle Age and Older
(PDF:239KB)
- Corporate In-house Education and Training and Career Formation in Japan (PDF:836KB)
- Creation of “Employment for Skill Development Program,” Aiming for Making Japan an Attractive Destination for Foreign Workers (PDF:377KB)
2024
- Allocation and Transfer Management by Japanese Companies (PDF:1.0MB)
- Japanese System of Vocational Education and Training in Historical Comparison: Focusing on the Role of Schools and Companies in the Formation of Vocational Competencies (PDF:899KB)
- Employment and Job Resignation among Japanese Youth (PDF:920KB)
- Post-Industrialization and Employment Fluidity: A Focus on Workers’ Careers (PDF:955KB)
- Will the Japanese Long-Term Employment System Continue to be Maintained? (PDF:977KB)
2023
- 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)
- Japanese Companies' Wage Determination in the Heightened Climate for Wage Increases (PDF:520KB)
- 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
2021
- Four Plans Setting the Course for Future Policy: Supporting Human Resources Development and Work Styles for a New Era (PDF:254KB)
- Selection and Training of Women Officers in Japanese Labor Unions: Focusing on Enterprise Unions (PDF:453KB)
- Where Does Career Support and Education in Japanese Universities Stand? Erosion by Business, or a New Form of University Education? (PDF:560KB)
2020
- 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)
- Wages in Japan
Part I: Why Does Japanese Wage Curve Have a Strong Seniority Element? (PDF:361KB) - Fringe Benefits (PDF:726KB)
- International Comparison of Higher Education Cost Sharing and Japanese Challenges (PDF:474KB)
2019
- The 3rd JILPT Tokyo Comparative Labor Policy Seminar 2019 "The Future of Women and Work -Policy Responses to Women’s Employment" (PDF:2.03MB)
- The Current State of the Japanese-style Employment System for High School Graduates: Based on Case Studies of 1997, 2007, and 2017 (PDF:321KB)
- The Formulation of Professional and Vocational Universities: Background and Challenges of a New Institutional Type in Japan (PDF:420KB)
2018
- Corporate In-house Education and Training and Career Formation in Japan (Part II): Japanese Companies’ Commitment to Employees’ Career Formation (PDF:430KB)
- 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 I): In-house Skills Development (PDF:376KB)
- Industry and Female Managers: Insights for Promoting Women's Active Participation in the Workplace (PDF:372KB)
- Current Status of Talent Management in Japan: Based on Insights into Procurement and Development of Next-Generation Executive Human Resources at Japanese Manufacturers (PDF:384KB)
- Learning Histories and Careers: The Outcome of Kosen (National Colleges of Technology) Education (PDF:279KB)
- Allocation and Transfer in Japan (PDF:422KB)
2017
- Nearly 40% of Companies Aim to Spend More on Training: Corporate Focus on Training Comes Clear (PDF:569KB)
- What is Japanese Long-Term Employment System? Has it Vanished? (PDF:729KB)
Related Information
Contact
International Research Exchange Section (Editorial Office)
E-mail:j-emm [at sign] jil.go.jp
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