FUJIMOTO Makoto

As of September 2024

Title, Research section

Vice Research Director, Career Development

Area/Field of Research

Industrial Sociology

Research Projects

Japan Labor Issues

• Vol.8 No.47, Spring 2024
  Will the Japanese Long-Term Employment System Continue to be Maintained? (PDF:977KB)
• Vol.7 No.44, Autumn 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)
• Vol.2 No.11 December 2018
  Corporate In-house Education and Training and Career Formation in Japan
  Part II: Japanese Companies’ Commitment to Employees’ Career Formation (PDF:377KB)
• Vol.2 No.10 November 2018
  Corporate In-house Education and Training and Career Formation in Japan
  Part I: In-house Skills Development (PDF:376KB)
• Vol.1 No.1 September 2017
  What is Japanese Long-Term Employment System? Has it Vanished? (PDF:729KB)

Japan Labor Review

• Vol.13, No.1 Winter 2016
  Analysis of the Support System for Job Seekers: Relation of Training Implementation Agencies' Activities and Trainees' Job Seeking Success (PDF:3.07MB)
  
• Vol.8, No.1 Winter 2011
  Human Resources Development at Companies in the Service Industry (PDF:282KB)
• Vol.5, No.2 Spring 2008
  Employment of Older People after the Amendment of the Act Concerning Stabilization of Employment of Older Persons: Current State of Affairs and Challenges (PDF:937KB)
• Vol.2, No.2 Spring 2005
  Business Strategy and Human Resource Management at Contract Companies in the Manufacturing Sector (PDF:308KB)

JILPT Research Report

• No.220 The Current Situation and Future Direction of the Long-term Employment System in Japan: Focusing on Mid-career Recruitment and New Business Developments (2022)
• No.215 Job Change, Skill Development, and Career Formation of Middle-Aged Workers (2022)
• No.211 Outlook and Challenges for an Era of Working Until Age 70: Empirical Analysis of Enterprises’ Continuous Employment Systems and Individual Careers (2021)
• No.196 Human Resources Development and Career Management in Japanese Companies (2017)
• No.195 Hiring and Workplace Assimilation at SMEs (2017)
• No.186 Elderly Employment in an Era of Labor Shortage (2016)
• No.163 Survey Research on the Job Seeker Support System: Survey and analysis of vocational training institutions (2014)
• No.131 Human Resources Development at SMEs in the Manufacturing Industry (Machinery and Metals) (PDF:120KB) (2011)
• No.118 Human Resource Development and Competence Development in Smaller Service Industries (PDF:119KB) (2010)
• No.112 Human Resource Development and Treatment of Skilled Workers in the Monozukuri (Manufacturing) Industry - Present State of Machinery and Metal-related Industries - (PDF:87KB) (2009)
• No.103 Human Resource Development in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises- Preliminary Consideration -(PDF:87KB) (2008)
• No.94 Relationship between Conduct of Business, Personnel Management and Labor-Management Communications during Business Turnarounds (PDF:84KB) (2007)
• No.83 Present Situation and Problems for Human Resources Management toward Continued Employment of Older Workers (PDF:77KB) (2007)
• No.61 Human Resource Management of Today's Japanese Firms: Interim Report of the Research Project "Comprehensive Analysis of Firms' Management Strategies, Personnel Treatment Systems, Etc." (2006)
• No.33 Transforming Human Resource Management and Governance/Corporate Strategies (PDF:56KB) (2005)
• No.20 Business Management, Personnel Management, and Industrial Relations of Foreign-Affiliated Pharmaceutical-Related Firms (PDF:38KB)(2005)

Publications and Papers

• "Human Resource Management of Japanese Corporate with regard to Conversion to Standard Employment from Non-Standard Employment”, Changes in Corporate Human Resource Management and The Effects on Polarization of Labor Markets in Japan, chapter 7, ESRI International Collaboration Projects 2006, 2007.

Presentations (International Conferences)

• Makoto Fujimoto (2024) “Addressing the shortage of labour and skills in the Japanese local area”, OECD Local Development forum 2024.

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