An estimated 800,000 new employees marked their first day at work Monday, the first day of fiscal 2012, after prevailing in a difficult job-hunting season exacerbated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
As of Feb. 1, 80.5 percent of college students had found jobs ahead of graduation in March, up 3.1 points from the previous year, when the figure fell to its lowest since 2000, when comparable data first became available, the labor ministry said.
(Japan Times)
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