Japan Labor Issues
Research
2025
- Creation of “Employment for Skill Development Program,” Aiming for Making Japan an Attractive Destination for Foreign Workers (PDF:377KB)
YAMAGUCHI Rui
2024
- What Is "Job-based Employment" (Job-gata koyō)? (PDF:791KB)
HAMAGUCHI Keiichiro - Changes and Continuity in Non-regular Employment in Japan: Improved General Situation, Yet Persistent Gender Structure (PDF:789KB)
TAKAHASHI Koji
- Fact-finding Research on Financial Compensation for Unfair Dismissal Cases in Court (PDF:3.9MB)
HAMAGUCHI Keiichiro
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)
FUJIMOTO Makoto
2022
- Remote Work and Job Satisfaction that Depends on Personality Traits: Evidence from Japan (PDF:482KB)
TAKAMI Tomohiro
- Analysis of Regular Employees Whose Inclination to Change Jobs Has Increased in the COVID-19 Pandemic (PDF:757KB)
TAKAHASHI Koji
2021
- Wage Compensation during Leave in the COVID-19 Crisis and Its Impacts on Workers' Careers (PDF:678KB)
TAKAHASHI Koji
- Working from Home and Work-life Balance during COVID-19: The Latest Changes and Challenges in Japan (PDF:678KB)
TAKAMI Tomohiro
2020
- 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)
KAYANO Jun
- A Case Study on Overwork-related Mental Disorders in Japan: Focusing on Young Employees (PDF:429KB)
TAKAMI Tomohiro
- Development of the Input Data for the Occupational Information Network of Japan (PDF:528KB)
KAMAKURA Tetzushi, MATSUBARA Ayako, MATSUMOTO Shinsaku
- Realities of Restructuring Enterprise Organization in Japan: Frontlines of Industrial Relations (PDF:251KB)
OH, Hak-Soo
2019
- Long-term Employment as a Social Norm: An Analysis of the JILPT “Survey on Working Life” (1999–2015) (PDF:430KB)
Koji Takahashi
- The Current State of the Japanese-style Employment System for High School Graduates: Based on Case Studies of 1997, 2007, and 2017 (PDF:321KB)
Yukie Hori
2018
- Gender Segregation at Work in Japanese Companies: Focusing on Gender Disparities in Desire for Promotion (PDF:377KB)
Tomohiro Takami
- Japan's Employment System and Formation of the "Abuse of the Right to Dismiss" Theory (PDF:229KB)
Keiichiro Hamaguchi
- Industry and Female Managers: Insights for Promoting Women's Active Participation in the Workplace (PDF:372KB)
Tamotsu Nagata
- The Future of the Japanese-style Employment System: Continued Long-term Employment and the Challenges It Faces (PDF:1.2MB)
Koji Takahashi
2017
- Elderly Employment in a Society of Population Decline (PDF:1.13MB)
Errata (PDF:118KB)
Takaaki Tahara - Basic Information on Recent Elderly Employment Trends in Japan (PDF:872KB)
Yutaka Asao - 75.8% Motivated to Keep Working even after Reaching Pensionable Age: The 7th Survey on Working Life (PDF:673KB)
- Polarization of Working Styles: Measures to Solve the Polarization and New Category of Regular Employees (PDF:1.4MB)
Koji Takahashi
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