Local News

A report compiled by the Nishinippon Shimbun found that the percentage of March high school graduates in the seven Kyushu prefectures who found employment fell to 94.2%, a decline of 1.2 percentage points from the previous year. The five Kyushu labor bureaus affiliated with the national government also found that the employment rate of graduates from post-high school educational institutions was stuck at the 80% level. Some are calling the corporate reluctance to hire new employees in the economic downturn an “ice age for employment”.