Japan's jobless rate dips to 5.5% in August

Friday 02nd October, 09:03 AM JST

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bdiego at 09:55 AM JST - 2nd October

While this is welcome news, part of me wonders if this happened because people got hired or if they're simply dying off or no longer counted. Unemployment in Japan for some people is a death sentence. Fortunately, the newer generation will be more flexible as business adapts and so do they.
Yelnats at 12:21 PM JST - 2nd October

Article needs to give out more information.
hanadecaka at 01:30 PM JST - 2nd October

Government can not provide job for Japanese and other people in japan then why they send ODA to other country sucn lot of moeny where it is not necessary.Just to win seat in UN?
30061015 at 01:43 PM JST - 2nd October

that we really have original new domestic demand

This hasnt happened for the better part of two decades, why should it happen now?

Analysts had been predicting the figure would continue climbing.

Do analysts consider that many have given up looking for work?
LIBERTAS at 05:25 PM JST - 2nd October

These are weekly rates. The monthly rates are too bad to print.
kaminarikeizai at 07:14 PM JST - 2nd October

In last 8 years many call-center, IT and financial research jobs outsourced to cheap labor countries from Japan. Nowadays, Japanese city garbage poly bag is even not ‘Made in Japan’.

It is foolish to send jobs (including insurance and financial data entry) to cheap labor countries in name of 'cost cutting'.

This is not a right way to achieve globalization target. Provide proper education and technical guidance to all cheap labor countries so they can solve their own problems (including global warming). Do not outsource for your greed and do not create a new kind of global economic imbalances.
usaexpat at 12:23 AM JST - 3rd October

Lies Lies Lies: If they counted those who've quit looking for work as well as Uni grads who are working at Family Marto the true number would be 10%-12% and that might even be conservative. The US number is always too low as well but closer to reality than Japans.
usaexpat at 12:25 AM JST - 3rd October

kaminarikeizai: I am 100% in agreement with you thinking. Companies have offshored jobs just to fatten the CEO's bank account. This can't continue or the 1st world countries will be 3rd world countries in no time.
evildave at 10:30 AM JST - 3rd October

Government can not provide job for Japanese and other people in japan then why they send ODA to other country

Surely you don't believe ODA is for benefiting the other countries? Its for subsidizing the japanese heavy-industry and construction business. Bids for ODA projects are restricted only to japanese companies.
Goodguy at 11:41 AM JST - 8th October

Provide proper education and technical guidance to all cheap labor countries so they can solve their own problems (including global warming). Do not outsource for your greed and do not create a new kind of global economic imbalances.

Wasn't Japan in the same show after the war? No capital, no infrasture, and no economy. One day these countries will move up the economic ladder and create markets for Japan goods. This is economics 101.
kaminarikeizai at 02:06 PM JST - 8th October

Yes, Japan was in the same show after the war.

In the current business practice, unplanned outsourcing is the biggest threat and danger for the society. We can see global economic imbalances everywhere. Rich nations and poor nations both will suffer this outsourcing in the future.

If countries do not have manpower or other resources, can go for outsourcing and it is the best option for the society. But it is danger to neglect your own resources and manpower, start to outsource a cheap labor country in name of cost-cut, blindly import cheap products or sending backend work to overseas. After using a cheap labor country for some years, move to other cheap labor country, so on………, just for the sake of greed. I do not like such kind of globalization.

Japanese companies never hire a person who changed job more than 2 times. I could not understand why these greedy companies are moving their business from one nation to another nation to make a cheap product.