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Companies are actively hiring due to the economic recovery.

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A labor ministry official, commenting on government data that shows informal job offers have been secured by 90.6% of job-seeking university students graduating this month in Japan. (Jiji Press)

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Pay them higher wages, and the recovery will become self-sustaining.

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Funny stuff. In the real world the Japanese economy is shrinking and thousands of companies are disappearing as the owners get older and quit:

"About 70 percent of Japanese workers are employed by such small firms, whose definition varies by industry sector. While the easy refinancing policy has probably helped keep Japan’s unemployment on a downward trend since 2009, two-thirds of the nation’s companies don’t make enough profit to pay taxes.

The OECD blames government backing such as loan guarantees for keeping nonviable enterprises afloat. “Such support distorts resource allocation and limits access to finance by viable companies, thereby reducing Japan’s potential growth,” it said in a report in April last year.

The number of bankruptcies in Japan has fallen for seven straight years, reaching 8,164 in 2016, according to Teikoku Databank, down from more than 13,000 in 2009. If the number of nonviable enterprises staying in business are counted, there could be as many as 35,000, Fujimori said. That’s even as 25,000 businesses folded voluntarily in 2016.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/13/business/economy-business/economy-seen-hurting-thousands-japans-zombie-firms-legally-dodge-bankruptcy/#.WMdONfIuNIU

How can losing 33,164 businesses in one year be seen as a recovery? Two-thirds of all the companies in Japan don't make enough money to pay tax. What economic recovery is that?

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The chicken or the egg?

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How man of these jobs are full-time and how may pay by-the-hour?

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A labor ministry official, commenting on government data that shows informal job offers have been secured by 90.6% of job-seeking university students graduating this month in Japan.

They're desperate to show that Abenomics is working. Anything to show Abe in a positive light and draw attention away from his scandal. like above posters said, what kind of jobs? part-time? contract? and what do the salaries look like? livable wage?

Lets see the official answer those questions.

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