Japan Labor Issues
Trends
2026
- MHLW's Survey Results on "A Comprehensive Review of the Work Style Reform Act Five Years After Its Enforcement" (PDF:630KB)
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Aiming to Raise Implementation Rate of Measures for Securing Job Opportunities until Age 70 to 40% or Higher: MHLW Formulates New Basic Policy for Measures for the Stabilization of Employment for Elderly Persons, etc. (PDF:573KB)
2025
- The MHLW Study Group Proposes the Future Direction of Labor Standards-Related Laws (PDF:616KB)
- Estimated Unionization Rate at Record Low of 16.1% for Third Consecutive Year: Results of MHLW's "Basic Survey on Labor Unions" in 2024 (PDF:724KB)
- 2024 Shunto: The First Wage Increase Above 5% since 1991 with an Urgent Need to Spread the Trend to SMEs (PDF:400KB)
ARAKAWA Sota - First Revision in 12 Years of Industrial Accidents Recognition Criteria for Mental Disorders: Customer Harassment and Continuous Engagement in Work with High Risk of Infection are Newly Added (PDF:191KB)
2024
- 2023 Shunto: Highest Wage Hike in 30 Years, Yet Its Sustainability a Challenge (PDF:1.3MB)
OGINO Noboru
2023
2022
- Social Inequality in the Prevalence of Working from Home under the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan (PDF:540KB)
TAKAMI Tomohiro
2021
- Four Plans Setting the Course for Future Policy: Supporting Human Resources Development and Work Styles for a New Era (PDF:254KB)
- The 2021 Shunto: Results and Identified Issues from a Broad Range of Discussions Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic (PDF:332KB)
OGINO Noboru
- The MHLW Study Group Proposes the Direction of Employment Policy for Post-COVID-19 (PDF:171KB)
- 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)
- Accommodation and Food Services Workers amid the COVID-19 Crisis in Japan (PDF:695KB)
- Job Separation and Reemployment amid the COVID-19 Crisis in Japan (PDF:1.47MB)
TAKAHASHI Koji - How Women Bear the Brunt of COVID-19's Damages on Work (Continued, Part II): Catch Up With Men on the Employment Recovery (PDF:1.23MB)
- Errata (PDF:96KB)
ZHOU Yanfei (JILPT Associate Researcher. Professor, Japan Women's University)
- Errata (PDF:96KB)
- How Women Bear the Brunt of COVID-19’s Damages on Work (PDF:476KB)
- Impact of the COVID-19 Recession on Full-Time Workers: Shortened Work Hours, Working from Home, and Possible Widening of Income Disparities (PDF:438KB)
TAKAMI Tomohiro
2020
- The Employment Adjustment Subsidy and New Assistance for Temporary Leave (PDF:260KB)
- Diminished Non-regular Employment, Solid Regular Employment: What Impacts Did the “First Wave” of the COVID-19 Pandemic Have in Japan? (PDF:307KB)
- Decreased Working Hours and Impact on Wages: A Look Back at the Novel Coronavirus’s “First Wave” in Japan (PDF:499KB)
TAKAHASHI Koji
- Student Part-timers as a Subject of Labor Policy (PDF:208KB)
- Obligating Efforts Concerning Measures to Secure Employment Opportunities up to the Age of 70: Revision of the Act on Stabilization of Employment of Elderly Persons, etc. (PDF:316KB)
- Thirty Years since JTUC-Rengo's Foundation: Challenges and Prospects for Japan's Labor Movement (PDF:273KB)
OGINO Noboru
2019
- MHLW’s Interim Report on Points of Controversy regarding Employment-like Work Styles (PDF:353KB)
- Policy Challenges for the Introduction of AI and Other New Technologies: Report of MHLW’s Committee on Basic Labour Policy (PDF:242KB)
2018
- Regional Minimum Wages Hiked by Average 3% for 2nd Straight Year: Hourly Rate Now 848 yen (PDF:375KB)
- Rengo Holds 15th Biennial Convention, Re-Elects President Kozu: Aims to Establish "Rengo Vision 2035" as It Nears 30th Anniversary (PDF:228KB)
2017
- Rengo Wavering in Party Support and Joint Struggle by Opposition Parties (PDF:64.3KB)
- Nearly 40% of Companies Aim to Spend More on Training: Corporate Focus on Training Comes Clear (PDF:569KB)
- 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)
- The 2017 Shunto, Wage Rise in SMEs and Non- Regular Employment: Changes in Negotiations Led by Pacesetters (PDF:639KB)
- One in Every Three Workers Experienced “Power Harassment”: MHLW is Taking Steps to Prevent It (PDF:641KB)
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