{"id":125679,"date":"2025-05-23T16:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T16:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/125679\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T16:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T16:14:13","slug":"98-of-new-graduates-in-japan-are-able-to-land-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/125679\/","title":{"rendered":"98% of new graduates in Japan are able to land jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The employment rate for March 2025 graduates of higher educational institutions stood at 98% as of April 1, the second highest on record, Japanese government data showed Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The rate, only 0.1 percentage point shy of the current all-time high, marked a year earlier, tied with those for 2018 and 2020 graduates, according to the data, compiled jointly by the education and labor ministries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now that damage from the COVID crisis is almost gone, companies are eager to hire (fresh graduates),&#8221; a labor ministry official said. Continued pay hikes on top of serious manpower shortages were also attributed to the high employment figure.<\/p>\n<p>The data showed more specifically that, of the recent graduates who landed jobs, men accounted for 97.6% and women 98.5% while earners of humanities degrees made up 98.2% and those of science degrees 97.3%.<\/p>\n<p>The two ministries jointly conducted the employment situation survey on 6,250 randomly picked job-seeking students who graduated in March from 112 national and private universities, colleges and other higher educational institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also found that the job placement rate for university graduates in Kanto came highest by region at 98.7%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The employment rate for March 2025 graduates of higher educational institutions stood at 98% as of April 1,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3092],"tags":[51,897,15065,16,15,12060],"class_list":{"0":"post-125679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-students","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-universities"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114558039714377271","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}