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Alongfortheride
So reduce the amount of taxes business pay and we might be in a position to do that! And how do you do that? Stop wasting money on military!!
David Brent
It's like a sick joke at this point, isn't it?
The fact is, most Japanese companies simply cannot operate at a profit unless they severely underpay their employees. Even the ones that can would rather hoard their cash.
No amount of asking in the world will change anything.
sf2k
might as well become a Youtuber and make USD
aaronagstring
Why not urge? Or is that too much, you think? Ah, go on. Urge. You know it makes sense.
Yubaru
Geez, how about taking the lead here and increasing the pay of the komuiin? No? Then how do you expect private corporations to do what you "ask"?
Oh right! The public got, well gets, pissed off when the komuiin get raises but they dont!
So a vicious circle, no one gets anything!
aaronagstring
So, the two who have minus-ed my comment: I assume you’re Japanese…are you happy with lower wages? Government inaction? LDP faction corruption? Speak. Or forever have no say, like us “gaijin”.
Tell_me_bout_it
what a joke of a leader
Moonraker
aarongstring.
"There's no point in asking, you'll get no reply," as the words go to an appropriately-titled Sex Pistols song go.
fxgai
Low quality companies should be encouraged to go out of business.
But instead what I see is the government pays subsidies to low quality companies, which prevents them from going out of business.
Competitive businesses would naturally raise wages - and we see this from some companies. They have less trouble attracting willing workers.
This is normal economics though.
Meiyouwenti
Japan is a free country, not a totalitarian dictatorship. It’s up to each business entity to decide whether they should raise wages or not. If Kishida wants to “support people’s disposable incomes,” just abolish the consumption tax. That would amount to 10 percent pay raise.
geronimo2006
Same old tune over and over again. Sounds almost desperate this time. Not that it requires any real action or sacrifice from the leadership. I expect another LDP PM to take over and start the whole thing all over again.
aaronagstring
Yeah, and then they wonder why the country is in such a state, when all they need is to look in the mirror. The fault lies with those “out to lunch” that vote, and continually vote, for LDP.
Spitfire
Just about a free country.
min spirit but not deed.
Mark
We beer hearing about wage increase for the past 4 or 5 years some did but the majority did NOT, and even if they do Inflation has already eaten it.
For now the poor is getting poorer and the middle class is almost disappearing,
yokohamarides
Gaba teachers have been striking since June(and again today) for just a ¥200 wage increase an end to the requirement to sign up into the Qualified Invoice System(Gaba is coercing instructors to pay the company’s consumption tax - do it or no new contract. Signing up means a loss of income for already underpaid instructors who have had no wage increase since 2008).
BertieWooster
Higher wages = more tax coming in.
If he doesn't get more tax money, there is no way he will be able to pay for the massive arms buildup.
And then what would his American handlers say?
リッチ
So he can raise taxes and price of goods and services.
daito_hak
Larger?
i have got none this year as the majority of employees in this country. What is he talking about this fool?
kurisupisu
….
Kishida and the LDP (both feckless anyway…) must change the laws in Japan otherwise ‘asking’ has absolutely no effect …
spinningplates
LOL. Our Company gave us 0.
Looking forward to -1 next year now!
Brian Wheway
If large co don't cough up some extra money in the wage packets, may be it's time for a few strikes, has the government told companies that they must stop assuming that staff will work for two hours for free every day? This will put a few extra yen in people's pay packets, and on another note, does the government ever dish out a wind fall tax in co that make extortionate amount of profit? The UK government did on some of the petro chemical co when they declared record profits,
almakukac
I am sick of hearing about the shunto negotiations. Shunto only has 6.8 million members so it's absolutely irrelevant how and what they negotiate for, wrt most of the japanese workers. In fact their negotiations won't even move the needle when it comes to average or median YoY real wage growth statistics.
All the suck-up Kyodo news pieces are using shunto as an example because that's the only example that makes looking the LDP in favorable light to some extent.
While all the news articles are comfortably excluding how the macro numbers are looking:
Tamarama
What Prime Minister in the world asks companies to raise wages?!?! That's ridiculous. Governments job is to make them do it, not ask them nicely to.
Wick's pencil
Will government employees get a raise?
Moonraker
It's the culture, innit. And we get to see the passive aggressiveness. Learn well.
opheliajadefeldt
Almost all employees around the world are under paid, so Japan is no different here. The corporations only obligations is to make even more profit for their share holders and of course the CEO's and directors wealth. And the workers, well they can take a hike, they deserve nothing more than the little we pay them?