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This news service contains Japan-related HR news that matter in a nutshell. Guaranteed less than 50 words linked back to its original news source. Great for busy HR pros like you!

  • Japan Job Fair 2023 draws Vietnamese students

    16 Nov 2023 00:29 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Nearly 30 leading Japanese corporations and firms are recruiting over 2,500 employees and interns in Japan and Japanese affiliates at the Japan Job Fair 2023 in Ho Chi Minh City on November 4.

    The event was held in both in-person and online formats by the Vietnam-Japan Institute of Technology (VJIT) and the Business Cooperation Centre under the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HUTECH), in collaboration with Japan’s Pasona group and the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.


    Source: https://en.vietnamplus.vn

  • Japan service activity posts slowest growth this year – PMI

    16 Nov 2023 00:22 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO – Japan’s services activity expanded at the slowest pace this year in October, a business survey showed on Monday, reinforcing concerns that the key sector propelling economic growth is continuing to soften. The final au Jibun Bank Service purchasing managers’ index (PMI) fell to 51.6 in October from 53.8 in September, beset by weak demand.

    Source: https://www.msn.com

  • Toddlers are put to work spreading cheer at Japanese nursing home

    13 Nov 2023 17:29 | JHRS (Administrator)

    KITAKYUSHU, Japan — Once a week, Rena Shinohara heads off to work, clocking in for a shift at a job one could say she was born to do.

    Loneliness is such an acute problem that in 2021 the Japanese government appointed its first “minister of loneliness,” charged with helping people of all ages connect especially after the Covid-19 pandemic. 

    Source: https://www.nbcnews.com


  • Japan's gangs hiring online

    13 Nov 2023 17:25 | JHRS (Administrator)

    RISA Yamada grew up fatherless and struggled to find consistent work until she stumbled on an intriguing job listing: one of a growing number of advertisements posted on social media by Japanese criminal gangs.

    Hired to impersonate a police officer, she thrived, wheedling hundreds of thousands of dollars out of Japan's many lonely, wealthy and naive elderly people on the phone.

    Source: https://www.nst.com.my


  • Japan to add driving to specified foreign worker skills

    30 Oct 2023 15:57 | JHRS (Administrator)

    In a bid to ease driver shortages, the transport ministry is working with relevant government agencies to add driving buses as a specified skill to the specified skilled foreign worker program, minister Tetsuo Saito said Tuesday.

    "We'll make various efforts to ensure that local residents and tourists have access to necessary means of transportation," Saito told a news conference.

    Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp 


  • Japanese government grant to support work on new ispace lunar lander

    28 Oct 2023 14:36 | JHRS (Administrator)

    LAS VEGAS — The Japanese government is providing ispace with $80 million to help fund development of a new lunar lander in parallel with a similar effort by the company’s U.S. subsidiary.

    Tokyo-based ispace said Oct. 20 that it won an innovation grant from the government’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) worth up to 12 billion yen ($80 million) for work on what the company calls the Series 3 lunar lander that will be ready for launch by 2027.

    Source: https://spacenews.com


  • Japan panel compiles new system for foreign technical interns

    25 Oct 2023 16:08 | JHRS (Administrator)

    A government panel of experts released a draft report Wednesday on a new system that would replace the foreign technical intern program, with various changes including allowing workers to switch jobs within the same industry if they meet certain requirements.

    Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp

  • Women are asking for promotions, but men keep getting them

    25 Oct 2023 16:02 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Women want to be leaders in the workplace, but employers are still passing them by in favor of their male counterparts.

    For every 100 men promoted to a manager role in 2022, only 87 women received the same boost, according to the Women in the Workplace report by Sheryl Sandberg’s LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Co. The number of women promoted inched up from 86 in 2021, but they’re still getting overlooked despite asking for promotions at the same rate as men, the survey found.

    Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp


  • Report on overwork highlights Japan's work-life balance issues

    16 Oct 2023 03:11 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The report, the eighth one mandated by the 2014 law on karōshi prevention measures, delves into the amount of sleep both self-employed and corporate workers are getting and how that affects workers' health. Research has shown that, when the gap between the amount of sleep people want and the amount they get is bigger than two hours a day, it leads to a range of health issues, including daytime sleepiness, difficulty concentrating and digestive and intestinal disorders, not to mention mental disorders such as depression and anxiety.

    Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp

  • 'Not proud at all': Japan struggles to recruit for Self-Defense Forces

    16 Oct 2023 03:07 | JHRS (Administrator)

    A recent open day at a military base near Tokyo was a fun family outing, but, despite the games and snacks, the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) recruitment stand was bereft of visitors.

    "This is the reality. The festival is always packed but no one comes," confessed one of the two soldiers on duty, as unwanted leaflets sat on a table next to a green armored vehicle.

    Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp

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