[SeekAndFind]

NOTE :

Companies slash wages, which reduces consumer spending. Businesses become more reluctant to take on new recruits, shutting young people out of the labor force. And productivity plummets, hurting Japan’s competitiveness in an increasingly aggressive international market.

[kabar]

Japan's economy in record plunge: Japan's economy during the first three months of 2009 shrank at its quickest pace since records began, as exports slumped, officials figures have shown.

[theDentist]

Could you imagine the UAW Union Leadership agreeing to having idle workers sweeping the streets of Detroit?

[jimfree]

green jobs

[guppas]

“Job tenure in Japan remains remarkably long,” . . . “They’ll get rid of temporary workers,”

Hmm . . . It sounds like if you have tenure. you have tenure. I never have understood this stuff.

[struggle]

They probably work only minutes walk away from my old apartment in Higashi Osaka.