Japan Labor Issues
Working life and awareness
2026
- MHLW's Survey Results on "A Comprehensive Review of the Work Style Reform Act Five Years After Its Enforcement" (PDF:630KB)
- Looking Back on 30 Years of Measures to Address the Declining Birthrate (PDF:1.7MB)
- Maternal Employment in Japan Over the Past 40 Years: Evidence from the Population Census (PDF:941KB)
- Trends in the Gender Gap in Time Use among Japanese Married Couples (PDF:761KB)
- Results of the Eighth "Survey on Working Life" from JILPT Fixed-Point Survey (PDF:803KB)
2025
- Current State of Working Hours and "Work Style Reform" in Japan (PDF:872MB)
- What Hurdles Are Young Female Regular Employees Facing in Japan? Recent Changes in the Young Generation's Career Attitudes (PDF:866KB)
- Effects of Paternity Leave Take-up Rate in Fathers’ Industry of Work on Mothers’ Employment and Health (PDF:317KB)
- 2024 Shunto: The First Wage Increase Above 5% since 1991 with an Urgent Need to Spread the Trend to SMEs (PDF:400KB)
2024
- Allocation and Transfer Management by Japanese Companies (PDF:1.0MB)
- Changes in Industrial Structure and Work Styles in Japan (PDF:1.9MB)
- Japanese Wives’ Decisions on Co-Residence and Employment Choices upon Husbands’ Workplace Relocation (Tenkin) (PDF:868KB)
- The Diffusion of Parental Leave for Fathers in Japanese Firms: Exploring Antecedents and Performance Outcomes (PDF:986KB)
2023
- 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)
2022
- Changes in Work/Life Situations and Psychological Distress during the Prolonged COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan (PDF:381KB)
- The Future of the Japanese Long-Term Employment Society: The Consequences of Post-Industrialization and Increase of Unmarried Workers (PDF:2.75MB)
- Analysis of Regular Employees Whose Inclination to Change Jobs Has Increased in the COVID-19 Pandemic (PDF:757KB)
2021
- 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)
- What Is Shunto? (PDF:376KB)
2020
- A Case Study on Overwork-related Mental Disorders in Japan: Focusing on Young Employees (PDF:429KB)
- A Look at Japanese Households Facing Risk of Livelihood Collapse Due to COVID-19 (PDF:304KB)
- The Slow Decline of the Male-breadwinner Family Model in Contemporary Japan and Its Ramifications for Men’s Lives (PDF:236KB)
2019
- Long-term Employment as a Social Norm: An Analysis of the JILPT "Survey on Working Life" (1999–2015) (PDF:430KB)
- 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)
- Current State of Working Hours and Overwork in Japan Part I: How Has It Changed Over the Years? (PDF:323KB)
- 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)
- Poverty and Income Polarization of Married Stay-at-home Mothers in Japan Part I: Historical Perspectives of Japanese Full-time Housewives (PDF:368KB)
- Human Resources Development according to Diversified Working Styles: MHLW's White Paper on the Labor Economy 2018 (PDF:419KB)
- Why did Japanese Dual-earner Couples Increase since the Late 1980s? (PDF:594KB)
- The Corporate Community and Changes in the Japanese-style Employment System (PDF:406KB)
2018
- Challenges for Promoting Innovations and Realizing Work-Life Balance: MHLW'S White Paper on the Labor Economy 2017 (PDF:357KB)
- Challenges for Workplace regarding the Autonomy of Working Hours: Perspective for the Prevention of Overwork (PDF:325KB)
- Why Do the Japanese Work Long Hours? Sociological Perspectives on Long Working Hours in Japan (PDF:501KB)
2017
- 75.8% Motivated to Keep Working even after Reaching Pensionable Age: The 7th Survey on Working Life (PDF:673KB)
- Rengo Wavering in Party Support and Joint Struggle by Opposition Parties (PDF:64.3KB)
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