Japan’s political parties are promising to raise the minimum wage, a step that may win votes in Sunday’s general election but could squeeze the small and midsize firms that form the backbone ...

Trust Ring, a small tech company in Osaka, is taking the unconventional approach and redefining perks at work. While others ...

Japan’s major labour unions and employees ... agreed in late July to target lifting the national average for the minimum wage 4.3% to above 1,000 yen for the first time, in what would be the ...

Labor unions of Hitachi and other major Japanese electronics companies on ... pay significantly as in recent years to ensure that wages rise faster than prices. Susumu Takimoto, a Hitachi ...

Japanese nominal wages rose at the fastest pace in nearly three decades, supporting the Bank of Japan’s latest rate hike ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's biggest business lobby Keidanren and trade unions kicked off annual labour talks on Wednesday that are likely to lead to another year of bumper wage hikes, though ...

"There was a lot of positive talk on the wage outlook," Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said at a gathering of regional bank executives last week, referencing a meeting of BOJ branch managers ...

But that began to change last year as a rapidly shrinking working-age population and rising inflation made it harder for retailers - who employ 10% of Japan's workers - to attract and retain staff.