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Japan's jobless rate falls to 4.1% in September

Business Oct. 28, 2011 - 03:14PM JST ( 25 )

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BurakuminDesOct. 28, 2011 - 12:44PM JST

Pretty much everyone has a job these days in Japan - which ironically is a problem : who is gonna do all the clean-up and dirty work up in Tohoku?
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BurakuminDesOct. 28, 2011 - 12:49PM JST

The figure was up from 0.66 in August as job opportunities rose in the disaster-hit areas for reconstruction demand.

Kinda answers my own question - these folks I guess!
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ExportExpertOct. 28, 2011 - 01:20PM JST

Still looks like lots of unemployed though, everytime i go to city hall there are tons of people hanging around the hello work center, never was like that prior lehman shock.
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bilderberg_2015Oct. 28, 2011 - 01:56PM JST

What? Does this include people doing totally meaningless, superfluous 'jobs'? Waving a glow stick and directing you in the only direction you can take anyway. 85 year old 'security guards' who can barely stand up, let alone stop a robbery. Taxi drivers who have absolutely no idea where you want to go. I guess all of these help to reduce the number of unemployed.
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YubaruOct. 28, 2011 - 03:19PM JST

People really need to take a closer look at how Japan reports it's unemployment figures.

Anyone employed for more than 1 hour a week, iirc, is considered to be working and thus dramatically changing the figures regarding unemployment. Take away the people who only work 1 to 0 hours per week and the unemployment figures change drastically.
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sunhawkOct. 28, 2011 - 03:28PM JST

a lot of underemployed, or people employed for some sort of government benefit to the company.
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Julian OnyaliOct. 28, 2011 - 03:33PM JST

I'm not surprised by this. I've only been a few weeks but, like bilderberg, I've noticed many people doing jobs which simply don't exist to the same extent in other countries.
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sunhawkOct. 28, 2011 - 03:57PM JST

all those parking attendants for any business that has parking for more then 5 cars. running into the street to stop traffic so the valued customer can get out.
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CrazyJoeOct. 28, 2011 - 05:11PM JST

The real unemployment rate must be much higher than 4.1%. At least three times as much.
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cactusJackOct. 28, 2011 - 05:33PM JST

If the rate was really 4.1%, I doubt the gov't would have to raise taxes to meet their shortcomings.
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some14someOct. 28, 2011 - 06:49PM JST

News from anime world, Neither Japan believes nor the world.
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kevinintokyoOct. 28, 2011 - 08:50PM JST

I agree with cactusJack that the J-Gov would not be so pressed to raise taxes if the unemployment rate was so low. I have been in and out of employment in Japan since early 2010. I currently work at a University and a professor told me that graduating students are finding it difficult to find viable work after graduation. I have had to visit hello-work (useless) a few time and am met with a lot of professionals in their late 30`s and higher trying to find viable work after working successfully for companies for more than 10 years. In the end the truth will come out as more people are laid off and young people are unable to find jobs. You may say their are a lot of jobs in Japan, but can you make a living off of 1000 - 1500 yen an hour. I want to return to America but find a lot more closed doors there than in Japan. SAD.
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marcelitoOct. 28, 2011 - 08:52PM JST

Kinda convenient how they left out the devastated areas out of the survey...guess all those people just sitting up there in Tohoku wihthout jobs would bring the rate up and spoil the nice newspaper headlines.. Lies, damn lies and statistics as they say
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YubaruOct. 28, 2011 - 10:52PM JST

People keep this in mind, the way Japan computes it's unemployment rate also factors in the number of people not looking for work, housewives, the elderly, and those who have refused employment are also factored in as being employed. Japan calculates it's unemployment figures differently than many if not most western or European countries.

The "real" unemployment rate here is closer to 9% or 10% of the total population.
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noriyosan73Oct. 28, 2011 - 11:13PM JST

One reason the employment rate is so high is because the USA subsidizes the economy through its military operations. It is not a matter of if the bases will close, it is just when they will be closed.
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David JohnsonOct. 28, 2011 - 11:53PM JST

If unemployment was that low... then why are there so many homeless people under the blue tarps?
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gifuOct. 29, 2011 - 01:11AM JST

This is the worst year I've seen in my 20 years here for my graduating uni students to get jobs. I have almost no kids landing full-time jobs. Usually by this time of the year all of them that want a job have found something.
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Ash EdwardsOct. 29, 2011 - 01:44AM JST

There were homeless people under blue tarps back in 1990 when we had elevator girls to push the buttons for us in department stores.
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Juan RodriguezOct. 29, 2011 - 02:52AM JST

Compared to the US's unemployment rate, it is not so bad, even at 9% or 10%. Folks, the grass is not always greaner on the other side. If you are in Japan, then you are much better there than anywhere else.
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sfjp330Oct. 29, 2011 - 03:39AM JST

Practically all the new jobs that is created in Japan is a part time position with meager pay and no benefit. They barely are able to pay the rent and eat three meals a day and nothing more. After years of economic stagnation and widening income disparities, the fact that it has a large and growing number of poor people. Almost one in six Japanese, or 20 million people, lived in poverty. There is a myth that Japan is uniformly middle class, but you can see that Japan’s poverty rate is at 15.7 percent, with social inequalities.
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sf2kOct. 29, 2011 - 05:57AM JST

how is this 4.1%?
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YubaruOct. 29, 2011 - 09:45AM JST

how is this 4.1%?

It's a number calculated by the national government to give the population a false sense of security in believing that the nation as a whole is heading in the right direction and that there is no need to fear social unrest due to the literally vast numbers of people who are underemployed or literally out of work.

If the Japanese government were to publish it's numbers accurately many people would be in shock and just maybe start demanding that their elected leaders get on with the business of putting the country back on the right track.

Never going to happen.
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nigelboyOct. 29, 2011 - 11:12AM JST

Unemployment numbers are based on ILO standards. If people are going to make an assertion that Japan's numbers are understated, offer some proof for a change.
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YubaruOct. 29, 2011 - 04:03PM JST

If people are going to make an assertion that Japan's numbers are understated, offer some proof for a change.

Google it yourself and you will see the information is out there.
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Peter PayneNov. 01, 2011 - 11:11PM JST

@Yubaru, it's pretty accepted that the number Japan uses for its unemployment is about 1% lower than what it would be using the U.S. method of calculation. Still good news, I guess, though I'd rather have some enyasu-related good news.