Japan’s largest labor union federation will keep seeking at least a 5% wage hike in next year’s pay talks, as new Prime ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -A Japanese Labour Ministry panel on Monday proposed a 6% increase in the national average minimum wage for this fiscal year, the biggest such jump since at least 2002, as the ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about the Japanese government's minimum wage council which has commenced this year's deliberations. Question: What's this year's ...

The Japanese government has begun discussions with the goal of setting the minimum wage at "1,000 yen or more." According to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) on the 1st, the Central Minimum Wage ...

The 4th plenary meeting of the Minimum Wage Commission will be held at 3 p.m. on the 13th, about two weeks before the legal deadline (June 29) to decide next year's minimum wage. The main issue in ...

TOKYO, July 28 (Reuters) - A Japanese government panel recommended on Friday that the national average minimum wage be raised by 41 yen ($0.29) an hour to 1,002 yen, the biggest hike ever in value ...

Sanae Takaichi’s tenure and the central bank's policy path could be affected if Japan can’t keep up its wage-hike momentum.