Japan Labor Issues
Research Paper
2025
- Advancing Women with Interrupted Careers: Focusing on Women's Motivation for Autonomous Skill Development during Middle Age and Older
(PDF:239KB)
TAGAMI Kota - A Comparative Study on Employment Policy Target for Persons with Disabilities: Japan, France, and Germany (PDF:1.0MB)
TERADA Gaku (Master of International and Administrative Policy, Hitotsubashi University. Chief, Employment Security Bureau, MHLW.)
- Issues for Regulating Working Hours in the Post-Work-Style-Reform Era (PDF:239KB)
HOSOKAWA Ryo (Aoyama Gakuin University) - Effects of Paternity Leave Take-up Rate in Fathers’ Industry of Work on Mothers’ Employment and Health (PDF:317KB)
NAKAYAMA Mao (Japan Women’s University)
ISHIKAWA Yumi (Shiga University)
2024
- Current Status of the Jobseekers Support System as a Second Safety Net (PDF:1.3MB)
SAKAI Tadashi (Hosei University) - 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)
TERADA Moriki (Nagoya University)
- Changes in Industrial Structure and Work Styles in Japan (PDF:1.9MB)
YAMASHITA Mitsuru (Meiji University)
OGAWA Shinichi (Yokohama National University) - Post-Industrialization and Employment Fluidity: A Focus on Workers’ Careers (PDF:955KB)
TAGAMI Kota (JILPT)
- Japanese Wives’ Decisions on Co-Residence and Employment Choices upon Husbands’ Workplace Relocation (Tenkin) (PDF:868KB)
SEKIJIMA Kozue (Nippon Institute for Research Advancement)
ABE Mayuko (Japan Center for Economic Research) - The Diffusion of Parental Leave for Fathers in Japanese Firms: Exploring Antecedents and Performance Outcomes (PDF:986KB)
UCHIDA Daisuke (Keio University)
URAKAWA Kunio (Kyushu University)
YU Younan (The University of Nagasaki)
2023
- The Shrinking Middle Class in Japan (PDF:1.3KB)
SHINOZAKI Takehisa (Waseda University)
TAKAHASHI Yoko (JILPT)
- The Labor Policy Council: Functions of the Group Consultation in the Process of Forming Labor Policy in Japan (PDF:802KB)
SUWA Yasuo (Hosei University) - Examining Japan's Labor Standards Inspection Administration and Its Challenge from the Perspective of the Inspection Offices (PDF:959KB)
IKEYAMA Kiyoko (Kobe University) - Labor Tribunal Proceedings: The Paradigm Shift in Labor Dispute Resolution and its Future Challenges (PDF:1.0MB)
ASANO Takahiro (Hokkai-Gakuen University and attorney at law)
- Japanese Companies' Wage Determination in the Heightened Climate for Wage Increases (PDF:520KB)
NISHIMURA Itaru (JILPT) - Promoting Employment of Older Workers and Adjustment of their Working Conditions at Japanese Firms (PDF:412KB)
KAJITANI Shinya (Kyoto Sangyo University)
- Changes in the Meaning of Work in Japan: A Cross-National Comparison between Developed Countries (PDF:429KB)
YONEDA Yukihiro (Wako University) - Is Japanese Internship for the Purpose of Education or Recruitment?: A Study of its Historical Background, and Recent Changes and Future Challenges (PDF:436KB)
KAMENO Jun (Hokkaido University)
2022
- The Future of the Japanese Long-Term Employment Society: The Consequences of Post-Industrialization and Increase of Unmarried Workers (PDF:2.75MB)
IKEDA Shingou, TAGAMI Kota, SAKAI Kazufumi (JILPT) - Why Do Firms Concentrate in Tokyo? An Economic Geography Perspective (PDF:351KB)
MIZUNO Masahiko (Osaka Prefecture University) - Trends in Task Distribution in Japan, 1990-2015: Evidence from the Occupational Information Network of Japan and the Population Census Data (PDF:1.3MB)
KOMATSU Kyoko (JILPT)
MUGIYAMA Ryota (Gakushuin University)
- Gender Equality in the Workplace from a Legal Perspective: Current Situation and Issues of Japan's Equal Employment Opportunity Act (PDF:325KB)
NAKAKUBO Hiroya (Hitotsubashi University) - 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)
TAKENOSHITA Hirohisa (Keio University)
TAGAMI Kota (JILPT. Doctoral program in Keio University (at the time of writing)) - Cooperation for Problem-Solving: The History of Quality Circles in Japan (PDF:462KB)
OGAWA Shinichi (Yokohama National University)
2021
- The Necessity of Reduced Working Hours under the Re-familization of Elderly Care (PDF:983KB)
IKEDA Shingou - Selection and Training of Women Officers in Japanese Labor Unions: Focusing on Enterprise Unions (PDF:453KB)
GOTO Kayo (Labour Research Council)
- 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)
YANAGIHARA Sachiko (University of Toyama) - Panel Data Analysis of the Generational Replacement Effect on Employment in Japanese Companies (PDF:354KB)
Yasuda Hiroki (Tokyo Keizai University)
Araki Hiroko (Keio University)
Juan Nelson Martinez Dahbura (Data Scientist)
- The Law to Prevent “Power Harassment” in Japan (PDF:345KB)
OBATA Fumiko (Kyoto University) - Where Does Career Support and Education in Japanese Universities Stand? Erosion by Business, or a New Form of University Education? (PDF:560KB)
KOMIKAWA Koichiro (Hosei University)
2020
- 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)
- 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)
2019
- Legal Regulation of Unreasonable Treatment of Non-regular Employees in Japan (PDF:231KB)
Chikako Kanki (Rikkyo University) - Why did Japanese Dual-earner Couples Increase since the Late 1980s? (PDF:594KB)
Akiko Sato Oishi (Chiba University) - The Formulation of Professional and Vocational Universities: Background and Challenges of a New Institutional Type in Japan (PDF:420KB)
Motohisa Kaneko (The University of Tokyo)
- The Corporate Community and Changes in the Japanese-style Employment System (PDF:406KB)
Mitsuru Yamashita (Meiji University) - Can "Owners" of Convenience Stores be "Workers" under the Japanese Labor Union Act? (PDF:280KB)
Yoko Hashimoto (Gakushuin University) - Who Holds Multiple Jobs? Empirical Analysis of Multiple Job Holding Using a Japanese Online Survey (PDF:432KB)
Atsushi Kawakami (Toyo University)
2018
- A Legal Study on Equal or Balanced Treatment for Regular and Non-Regular Workers in Japan: With Particular Focus on the Relationship between Anti-Discrimination Principle and Policy-Based Regulations for Equal or Balanced Treatment (PDF:315KB)
Koichi Tominaga (Sophia University) - Fixed-Term Contract Employees and Intra-Firm Wage Gaps: Focusing on the Reasons Why Companies Use Them (PDF:484KB)
Koji Takahashi - Why Do the Japanese Work Long Hours? Sociological Perspectives on Long Working Hours in Japan (PDF:501KB)
Hiroshi Ono (Hitotsubashi University) - Challenges for Workplace regarding the Autonomy of Working Hours: Perspective for the Prevention of Overwork (PDF:325KB)
Tomohiro Takami - Learning Histories and Careers: The Outcome of Kosen (National Colleges of Technology) Education (PDF:279KB)
Masakazu Yano (Tokyo Institute of Technology) - 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)
Itaru Nishimura
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