Press review: March 2025
26-03-2025
In this section you will find this month's press review, which contains a selection of some of the most interesting Japan-related online articles that have been published over the past month. To read them, please click on the following links:
- The Japan News - Japan to Promote Solar Power Consolidation; Feed-In Tariff System to be Phased out from 2032
- The Japan Times – Japan's metalworker unions demand record pay hike
- The Japan Times – Major Japanese companies agree to solid pay and bonus hikes
- The Asahi Shimbun - Part-timers see record wage hikes in annual negotiations
- The Japan Times – Japan’s consumers hunt for bargains as food inflation bites
- The Asahi Shimbun - Japan household spending on food in ’24 hit highest level in 43 years
- The Japan Times – Japan’s households slash cash at record pace as inflation bites
- The Asahi Shimbun - Average price of new condo in Japan rises over 60 million yen
- The Japan Times – Government to help regional firms hire urban workers for side jobs
- The Mainichi - Many foreign students in Japan seek jobs but face language barriers, lack of support
- The Mainichi - Women promoted to managerial positions at quarter of men's rate in Japan: Mainichi analysis
- The Mainichi - Japan's shortage of full-time workers at worst level since COVID
- The Mainichi - 'Can we hire your child?': More Japanese firms seeking parents' OK for student job offers
- The Asahi Shimbun - For 3rd year in row, net positive migration to Tokyo increases in ’24
- The Asahi Shimbun - Births in Japan hit record low in 2024, declining for 9th year
- NHK - Births in Japan hit record low as housing costs soar
- The Mainichi - Beauty market shifts to target the young at heart in a rapidly aging Japan
- The Asahi Shimbun - AI robots may hold key to nursing Japan’s aging population
- The Japan Times – Japan's traditional brokers shift focus to inheritance business
- The Asahi Shimbun - Welfare benefit applications rise for fifth year; many live alone
- NHK - Survey: 61% of Japanese hospitals operating in red
- The Japan Times – Japan credit investors seek shield from M&A risks as deals boom
- The Japan Times – About 30% of major Japanese companies using AI for recruiting, poll says
- The Mainichi - Japan gov't OKs bill that allows state to advise firms over AI risks
- The Japan Times – Japan aims to triple domestic cybersecurity industry sales in next decade
- The Japan Times – Japanese startups driving space development
- The Japan Times – Japan to invite small businesses to declare ¥10 billion sales targets
- The Japan Times – Japan's Cat Day sees companies capitalize on 'a-meow-zing' economic boon
- The Mainichi - Impact of Japan's 'catnomics' in 2025 estimated to approach level of Tokyo Olympics
- The Mainichi - Japan to require food labels to include cashews amid rising nut allergies
- The Japan Times – Japan struggles to fend off a world without enough matcha
- NHK - Japan aims to boost food sales among tourists, overseas
- The Japan Times – Women in Japan call for clothing that has pockets
- The Asahi Shimbun - Tokyo wants overseas tourists to spend more money at night
- NHK - Japan's tourist industry eyes sustainable success after record-breaking year
- The Asahi Shimbun - JATA to promote overseas travel by subsidizing passport fees
- The Asahi Shimbun - 2030 tourism target may leave Japan 536,000 workers short
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