Over 3 mil. jobs could be lost in Japan due to coronavirus

Up to 3.01 million jobs in Japan could be lost due to the new coronavirus pandemic in the year through next March, an impact more serious than the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, a research institute said Wednesday.In the worst case scenario in which containment of the global virus is achieved at the end of this year, Japan could see a 4.5 percent fall in the number of workers from the previous year, according to the Chubu Region Institute for Social and Economic Research based in Nagoya, central Japan.In fiscal 2009, the financial crisis triggered by the collapse of Lehman Brothers Hold…READ FULL ARTICLE