Through 9 weeks

Week 10:Through 9 weeks 

Hello!! How are you? Are you fine? Recently, I am very fine. It is March from today and the temperature in Ibaraki is becoming warm. This season is my favorite. So my feeling is very good, recently. This week is last of my blog about Japanese economy. This time, I will write my opinion through 9 weeks of my blog.

I decided to write this blog with little curiosity about Japanese economy, so I had poor knowledge of it and English skill. It is very hard work and consume much time for me to write blog about difficult contents like my topic at first, but through 9 week’s experience that I wrote blog in English and attended Mario’s class, I can write blog fast in English and I could know something (about English word and knowledge for Japanese economy). This experience thorough 9 weeks is brought me up so I think it was good to do with my best.

Thorough 9 weeks, I was interested in week6’s subtopic (economic profit and territorial dispute) specially. This problem is very hot subject in Japan and I often watch the news related to the problem especially Senkaku islands. Each country insists on the right of territory because each country have original insist. But most of Japanese living in Japan only know Japanese insist and history of Japanese side. I think Chinese is same, too. I knew the insist of Chinese side from other student’s blog and internet webs about Senkaku Islands. Of course, there are many information and insists which I did not know there. I think Japanese should know Japanese side insist and its reason firstly, furthermore, knowing Chinese side ones in addition is better. Most Japanese people cannot affect this problem and change the situation. But we can know and think about it. I think it is better that you have individual opinion about the problem after thinking.

Last week, I introduce about Japanese economic problem especially about the problem of employment. There are many problems other than the problem and in my blog’s questionnaire, Many of people who answer it think the situation of Japanese economy is bad. You may feel sense of crisis and uneasiness but I do not think so. Although the Japanese rank of GDP is falling, it is kept at high rank in the world. Japan has many big companies like TOYOTA that I introduce at week4 and there are many high leveled techniques. This is what Japanese can be proud of in the world. So I do not worry about nothing in the feature of Japan but expect. What kind of development will happen in the feature? And what kind of change will it give in our life? How will Japan contribute to the development and change? I am looking forward to and I expect Japan give good influence to the world.

This time this blog is end. Writing blog is very hard but worthwile. So I want to write new blog when I interested in something other. Thank you for my reading blog through 10 weeks! Goodbye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Problems of Japanese Economy

Week 9：Problems of Japanese Economy

Hello!! Week9’s topic is “present problems of Japanese economy”. Today, in Japanese economy, there are many problems. Do you think of any problems related with Japanese economy? This time, I pick up problem about the situation of Japanese employment.

Increase of the unemployment rate

 For a while after war, the number of unemployed people had been less than one million without in 1955. But in 1975 the number was over a million, in 1995 the number was over two million, and in 1999 the number was about triple than in 1995. As you know to see picture below, the rate of unemployment people became high with the situation. Today’s the rate is over 5%. Judged from Japanese present situation of adopt, we can predict that the rate will rise.

Increase of young poor people

 According to investigation of household type, the rate of young poor people who are 29 years or younger become higher. The rate of unemployment people who are 15-24 years old become higher, too. As we can know from this date, there are many young people who get few incomes. Not few of the people work as irregular worker. These people are represented as job-hopping part-time worker (“フリーター” in Japanese). Average income of these people is about 1,400,000 yen in a year in other word, average income of these people is 120,000 yen per a month. It is difficult for them to live alone with such little income. We can image easily that if these people have family who are fed by them, the situation is more serious.(240)

People who work as job-hopping part-time worker against one’s intention

According to Cabinet Office, about 15% of job-hopping part-time workers expect that they want to be job-hopping part-time worker. But actually, about 72% of job-hopping part-time workers do not wish that they work as job-hopping part-time worker. They want to work as regular stuff. You know form this date, we can guess that many of them work against one’s hope. Those people who are not regular stuff are in difficult labor environment because they cannot widen possibility by raising ability for occupation or accumulating experience. So if they hope to be regular stuff, it is difficult for them to get away from the situation because of their poor ability for occupation.

Increase of the NEET who give up job hunting

It seems that the image of NEET that youth don’t have working will spreads and colonizes widely. But this is slightly wrong. We can distinguish them whether they have working will or not. Actually, the number of NEET who have the will are more than the one who don’t have the will. The number of former is about 426,000 and the number of latter is about 421,000. In addition, the number of former is increasing and the number of latter doesn’t increase. From this date, we can guess that the course of NEET’s condition is not their will but bad employment environment surrounding them. Most of them who have working will are affected disease or injury and they cannot job search. So we should judge present condition of NEET by only consider the number of them or the image.

Do you know about problem about the situation of Japanese employment? A lot of causes are included but many of them don’t relate to individual. So I want to Japanese government or company make an effort to create good employment situation.