Japan jobless rate rises to 2.6% in FY 2025 as more people enter job market

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.In the fiscal year ended March, the number of unemployed people increased 50,000 to 1.80 million and the number of those with jobs grew 360,000 to 68.29 million, the highest level since comparable data became available in 1953, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications said.The number of e…READ FULL ARTICLE