Japan: Employment promised and then revoked
Japan
Using the excuse of financial instability, new graduates in Japan, after being hired initially, are finding that unofficial promises of employment are then being revoked, a trend that blogger Akinori Nakamura [中村昭典] uses as a starting point for making observations on recent changes in the Japanese employment system. Nakamura-san compares today's employment situation with the system after the collapse of the bubble economy [en] about two decades ago, and makes some remarks about the new categories of irregular and temporary workers that are emerging in Japan.
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