Japan factory output slumps; jobless rate rises to 2.9%

It's only gonna get worse from now on. Furloughing at major corpos too. [mine at least]

Yet, many many people still didnt get their Abe pocket money, including myself.

hurt by coronavirus lockdown measures at home and overseas that have upended supply chains, kept businesses shut and depressed consumer spending.

And the Ironie of that thing is, that all these lockdowns didn't help anything to make the Virus situation better or let the virus disappear.

The only outcome of these Lockdowns is that millions of people lost their jobs, are frustrated, angry and the economies are broken.

2.9%? While that’s not good for Japanese standards, it’s fantastic by US standards, I can tell you that much. God, I can’t wait to be able to move to Japan! I know I said this quite a bit, and not to belabor the point, but I really can’t wait for it.

Japan has done better then most countries. I believe the recovery will take some time, another Coronavirus wave is possible which would slow things down.

Japan will be among the top countries to come out of this Covid-19 Recession that's my prediction.

2.9% jobless rate in a country with labour shortage ...

I guess the problem is not that there are no Jobs but like in most first world countries the people are to "good" to do some jobs

It's generally not that people are too "good" for some jobs, other than a percentage of agricultural jobs (as it the case in most develped countries), it's that it will take some time to shift workers who lost jobs in one place to shift to combo company.

Japan will be among the top countries to come out of this Covid-19 Recession that's my prediction.

Yea, it did well coming out when the bubble burst in the early 90s.

Did well coming out of the economic stagnation that followed after the bubble burst in the early 90s

I am a chef, 27 years of experience, from 6 years living in Japan. Because of the corona i lost my job too, so I started search very hard and, after 60 applications, I could find a job, but 30% more cheap than before. Hard times are coming, but we need to fight and overcome this bad moment