Tokyo, March 21 (Jiji Press)--Pay increases offered by Japanese companies so far in this year's "shunto" spring wage negotiations have averaged 5.40 pct, a second tally by the Japanese Trade Union ...

While the outcome of the meeting is a foregone conclusion, we will be looking out for signals of policymakers’ thinking around the outcome of the first round of shunto wage negotiations and the ...

Keidanren (Japan Business Federation) released the first tally for the “shunto” spring wage negotiations. The 5.58 percent, which included regular salary increases and base increases ...

Japan’s big companies are expected to deliver the largest pay rise in 26 years in next week’s “shunto” wage negotiations, offering policymakers hope the country might finally emerge from ...

Major Japanese firms will soon decide their response to demands for pay hikes by their labor unions, wrapping up their annual "shunto" negotiations by the end of this month. Some 68.1 percent of firms ...

Automobile manufacturers play a leading role in the annual shunto spring wage negotiations, and if their profits worsen, the negative impact on the Japanese economy will be enormous. Muto is said to ...

The municipal government of Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, which was devastated by a large-scale forest fire, fully lifted an evacuation order at 10 a.m. on Monday. The city, which declared the fire to be ...

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