The government on Wednesday set a five-year goal of achieving annual inflation-adjusted wage growth of 1 percent across Japan ...

The government will set a goal of reaching 1% annual gains in real wages by the fiscal year starting in April 2029, according ...

Japan’s inflation-adjusted real wages fell 0.5 pct in fiscal 2024, which ended in March, from the previous year, down for the ...

The Japanese government is likely to establish 1% growth in real wages as its first-ever official target for pay increases, a ...

Japan's inflation-adjusted real wages fell 0.5 % in fiscal 2024 ... Earlier this month, the government set a goal of achieving real wage growth of some 1 % annually in the five years through fiscal ...

The government will set a goal of reaching 1% annual gains in real wages by the fiscal year starting in April 2029, according ...

TOKYO -- Risks of a sharp decline in earnings is threatening Japan's wage growth as the U.S. continues to wave its "tariff card" around the world, putting pressure on businesses that are already ...

Using prefectural data, we study the potential impact on wage dynamics of the planned minimum wage increase policy in Japan. Our main result is that stepping up minimum wage growth from 2 to the ...