I’ve been out of work for two months now, and it goes without saying that it’s been hard times financially. Damn, this recession!!!
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Two Sun Dawn and My Jerry Maquire Moment
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Everyday hustling, trying to find clients for web design/development services, has been really disheartening. The recession still holds sway in Japan (despite the government's economic numbers) has most potential clients unwilling to take on any web designs. And those that do, well.... let's just say, they're really looking for a bargain! Makes me want to scream - "Show. Me. The. Money!!!"
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Hatoyama faces daunting economic task
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Caption under the photo says, "Many of Japan's newly destitute are reliant on soup kitchens". I saw a long, long queue at one such "soup kitchen" in a park in Tokyo last year (before the so-called global "simultaneous" recession hit). Perhaps, you'd better not win an election unless you know where to get money, anyone's money, to pay for your promises.
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Unemployment rate in Sakhalin fell to 1.3%
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The department noted that, due to the financial crisis, unemployment on the island reached a peak of 1.8% (5,528 people) on April 22. By July 1, unemployment levels dropped to 1.3 percent (3,973 people). The best position in the labor market remains in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, with a 0.3% rate of unemployment.
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Young Japanese Raise Their Voices Over Economy
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A group of young people recently gathered in a darkened park here. Holding placards and megaphones, they chanted slogans condemning the Japanese government and a lack of jobs and opportunity.
Japan unemployment rises to 5.2 percent in May, highest in 5 years
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Japan’s unemployment rate rose to 5.2 percent in May - the highest level in more than five years, the government said Tuesday.
The country’s jobless rate worsened from 5.0 percent in April, suggesting that while Japanese companies may be starting to recover, their workers face growing insecurity about jobs.
Paid to Return Home
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I know that everyone has their own story about getting their visa stamp in their passport once arriving in Japan but what are your views on Japans immigration policy? Really interesting that the Japanese government is encouraging the return home of unemployed foreign workers with Japanese heritage.
Read more »Ranks of homeless swell
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A rush of newly homeless is expected starting in May as workers exhaust their savings after being released from six-month or annual contracts that expired at the end of the fiscal year on March 31.
'Temp' protests warp face of egalitarian Japan Inc.
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"Fallout from firing contract workers underlines dangers of new culture of convenience." I felt the culture of Japan was that of conveninece (or "expediency"), rather uncaring in spite of what they claim to the contrary. Kind of reminded me of a woman I once met who said, "We need poor countries so that we middle-class people can afford vacation".
Read more »Fewer jobs for less pay for China's labourers
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Xian Yuguo has a tattoo on his left arm with the Chinese character for wealth. But the 20-year-old was growing worried as he competed for a job with tens of millions of labourers in China's increasingly wobbly economy.
He had heard a tip about work at a toy factory in this industrial city. Time was running out.
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Japan social safety net fails
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Koji Hirano said his "mind went blank" with disbelief when he and other workers at a Canon digital camera factory in Oita were suddenly called into a cafeteria in late October and told they were being laid off.
Japan Ministry Proposes Plan to Buy Company Shares
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The Japanese government may let a state-owned lender purchase stakes in companies that are struggling to raise funds as the economy deteriorates, according to a Trade Ministry proposal. (Things just keep getting scarier and scarier...)
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Companies angry over thoughtless students amid economic downturn
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"One HR person for a trading company said students these days lack common sense. “Just after we made a job offer to a graduate, he replied to us by email via his mobile phone, saying, ‘ I didn’t know I would have to work abroad for a few years at your company. I’m actually not good at English.
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China Faces Worst Unemployment in Decades as Slowdown Deepens
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China’s official urban unemployment rate jumped for the first time since 2003 and may climb to an almost 30-year high as exports slump and a slowdown deepens in the world’s third-biggest economy.
Read more »Homeless rate in big cities up 15% on year
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And that's in November. How many of the 85,000 temporary and day workers who have lost or are expected to lose their jobs (and their places to live) by March will join them? It seems to be that Japan, Inc. has gone awry.
Read more »Japanese workers face horror of mass firing era
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Is this the end of "escalator" career? Is this the end of the "you go out and make money and I stay home and raise my kids" era? Hard times, nonetheless. I can't even fire myself, the only "employee" of this "self-employer", but maybe my clients could...perish the thought.
Read more »26 cities request emergency support for foreign workers
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Dozens of cities and towns with large numbers of foreign residents called on the central government Wednesday for help in protecting their jobs and supporting them amid the rapidly crumbling labor environment.
Foreign laborers hit hard by downturn in Japanese economy
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HAMAMATSU —Brazilian Stenio Sameshima came to Japan last year with plans to make a bundle of money at the country’s humming auto factories. Instead, he’s spending a lot of time in line at employment agencies.
