Japan Labor Issues
Diverse working styles, Employment-like working styles
2026
- Non-Compete Clauses and Restrictions on Labor Mobility in Japan (PDF:680KB)
- Results of the Eighth "Survey on Working Life" from JILPT Fixed-Point Survey (PDF:803KB)
2025
- The MHLW Study Group Proposes the Future Direction of Labor Standards-Related Laws (PDF:616KB)
- What Hurdles Are Young Female Regular Employees Facing in Japan? Recent Changes in the Young Generation's Career Attitudes (PDF:866KB)
- 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)
2024
- The 7th JILPT Tokyo Comparative Labor Policy Seminar 2024 “Challenges in Collective Labor Relations in the Context of Worker and Workstyle Diversification: Reassessing the Role of Labor Unions” (PDF:5.2MB)
- Freelance Act Comes into Effect in November 2024 (PDF:707KB)
- What Is "Job-based Employment" (Job-gata koyō)? (PDF:791KB)
- Changes and Continuity in Non-regular Employment in Japan: Improved General Situation, Yet Persistent Gender Structure (PDF:789KB)
- Post-Industrialization and Employment Fluidity: A Focus on Workers’ Careers (PDF:955KB)
- The Diffusion of Parental Leave for Fathers in Japanese Firms: Exploring Antecedents and Performance Outcomes (PDF:986KB)
- Worker Status of Platform Workers under the Labor Union Act
The Uber Japan and One Other Company Case (PDF:923MB)
2023
- The Shrinking Middle Class in Japan (PDF:1.3KB)
- Can a Client Be Held Liable for a Breach of Obligation to Care for Employee Safety and Health Due to
Harassment against a Freelancer?
The Amour (Aesthetic Salon) and Other Defendant Case (PDF:659KB) - 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)
- Findings from the Results of the "NHK/JILPT Joint Survey on Lifestyles and Attitudes" (PDF:534KB)
- Employers' Duty for Safety of Multiple Job Holder Who Worked Excessively Long Hours
The Daiki Career-Casting and One Other Defendant Company Case (PDF:238KB)
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)
- 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) - Labor Law Policy on Freelance Work (PDF:256KB)
- Remote Work and Job Satisfaction that Depends on Personality Traits: Evidence from Japan (PDF:482KB)
- The Future of the Japanese Long-Term Employment Society: The Consequences of Post-Industrialization and Increase of Unmarried Workers (PDF:2.75MB)
- Social Inequality in the Prevalence of Working from Home under the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan (PDF:540KB)
2021
- MHLW's Guidelines for Promoting and Establishing High-quality Telework (PDF:193KB)
- 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)
- Working from Home and Work-life Balance during COVID-19: The Latest Changes and Challenges in Japan (PDF:678KB)
- The 4th JILPT Tokyo Comparative Labor Policy Seminar 2020: "The Changing World of Work in Digital Age —New Forms of Work and the Role of Labor Policy" (PDF:3.6MB)
- The Necessity of Reduced Working Hours under the Re-familization of Elderly Care (PDF:983KB)
- How Human Coexistence with ICT in the Era of Telework Enabled Should Be: From the Viewpoint of Now and the Future of Telework in Japan (PDF:347KB)
2020
- Wages in Japan
Part III: Wages and Forms of Employment (PDF:332KB) - Is an Owner-manager of a Convenience Store a “Worker” under the Labor Union Act?
The Seven-Eleven Japan Case (PDF:210KB) - Wages in Japan
Part II: Wages and Size of Company (PDF:365KB) - Legal Issues Surrounding Employment-like Working Styles: Disguised Employment and Dependent Self-employment (PDF:479KB)
2019
- MHLW’s Interim Report on Points of Controversy regarding Employment-like Work Styles (PDF:353KB)
- Japanese Policy regarding Employment-like Working Styles (PDF:169KB)
- Who Holds Multiple Jobs? Empirical Analysis of Multiple Job Holding Using a Japanese Online Survey (PDF:432KB)
2018
- Work Style Reform Bill Enacted: Discussions Underway at the Council on the Contents of Specific Procedures (PDF:345KB)
- The Future of the Japanese-style Employment System: Continued Long-term Employment and the Challenges It Faces (PDF:1.2MB)
- Fixed-Term Contract Employees and Intra-Firm Wage Gaps: Focusing on the Reasons Why Companies Use Them (PDF:484KB)
2017
- Polarization of Working Styles: Measures to Solve the Polarization and New Category of Regular Employees (PDF:1.4MB)
- Government Decides "Action Plan for the Realization of Work Style Reform" : Relevant Laws To Be Amended Aimed at Overtime Limits and Equal Pay for Equal Work (PDF:640KB)
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