In Nikkei Asia News Roundup's latest episode, Brian Chapman and special guest Sayumi Take discuss how Japan's "lost generation," workers in their 40s or early 50s, faces a raft of challenges getting ...

According to the International Labour Organization, 8.8% of global working hours were lost last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The ILO says the slump is equivalent to 255 million full-time jobs ...

The long “employment ice age” that followed the collapse of the 1980s economic bubble gave birth to a generation of Japanese people, now in their late thirties to early fifties, for whom job ...

Japan’s “lost generation” came of age during the country’s so-called employment ice age of the 1990s and early 2000s. University graduates who expected secure lifetime jobs instead faced hiring ...

「未就職卒業者」とは、大学を卒業した時点で、就職も進学もしていない人を指します。就職できずにいったん卒業すると、大学の就職支援を受けにくく、フリーターなど不安定な雇用形態に固定化される原因になるといわれます。日本では、少子化で大学 ...