Moeka Iida
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127 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Aug
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Economic changes are adding a new twist to their story.
So what's happening in Japan now is that the country is emerging from decades of deflation.
Prices are finally going up, and firms are able to pass down prices to consumers and are able to give them back to employees in the form of salaries.
But these pay rises are concentrated among younger workers and the
I say's generation is left behind once again.
Yes, exactly.
The struggles of the Ice Age generation becomes even clearer when you understand what came before them.
So looking at the people who graduated during the bubble era.
What happened in the bubble era is in the nineteen seventies and nineteen eighties, companies hired in huge numbers, and there's a lot of stories about this time period.
So students would find their mailboxes filled with recruitment letters from companies keen to woo them or
Or being treated to fancy meals by prospective employers.
But everything changed when the bubble popped in the 1990s.
Because Japan's employment system is very rigid and it's hard to shed existing workers, even in the face of an economic downturn, the people who were already employed by companies clinged on to their positions, but the firms froze hiring instead, so it affected younger people and students.
And in fact, the ratio
Of job openings to college applicants fell significantly from a peak of nearly three to less than one by the year two thousand.
So because they couldn't land into stable jobs offered by companies, many of them ended up in so-called irregular work.
So Japan's labor market has a very polarized system.
On one hand, you have regular workers who enjoy a lot of labor protection or labor rights, and they enjoy seniority based pay rises as they age.
And then on the other hand, you have people.
People in the irregular track, who are in fact often performing the same kind of work as their regular peers, but they're just working on more precarious contracts, so they are the first to be cut in economic downturns, and they also receive much lower pay.
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