{"id":80728,"date":"2025-05-07T02:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T02:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/80728\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T02:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T02:40:10","slug":"japans-ice-age-employment-generation-is-at-risk-of-poverty-during-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/80728\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s &#8216;ice age&#8217; employment generation is at risk of poverty during retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s &#8220;employment ice age generation,&#8221; now in their 40s to 50s, faces an increasing risk of being in poverty when they are older even if they fully receive basic pension benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Due to low wages they tend to earn during their working years and protracted pension adjustments reflecting the country&#8217;s demographic changes, many in the generation may end up relying on welfare benefits. Experts call for shoring up pension benefit levels and providing housing support for the generation.<\/p>\n<p>The ice age generation refers to about 17 million people who entered the job market from around 1993 to 2004, when it was difficult to find jobs after Japan&#8217;s asset bubble collapsed in the early 1990s, kicking off long-term stagnation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s &#8220;employment ice age generation,&#8221; now in their 40s to 50s, faces an increasing risk of being in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3092],"tags":[51,897,39230,617,18266,15401,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-80728","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-nonregular-workers","11":"tag-pensions","12":"tag-poverty","13":"tag-social-welfare","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114464242719256863","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80728","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=80728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}