TOKYO - Japan's average unemployment rate in fiscal 2025 rose 0.1 percentage point from a year earlier to 2.6 percent, deteriorating for the first time in five years, as more people who were not previously working were counted as unemployed after starting to look for jobs, government data showed Tuesday.
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