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Meeting with the Prime Minister and Workers to Exchange Views on Work Style Reform

The way forward to advancing cooperatives in Africa: Interviews with African cooperative leaders

In September 2016, three cooperative leaders from the United Republic of Tanzania and Niger participated in a study tour to Japan to get exposed to lessons learned from Japanese cooperative enterprises and share cooperative experiences between the...

Labour Force Survey - August 2016

First meeting of the Council for the Realization of Work Style Reform

Inauguration Ceremony of Secretariat for Promoting the Realization of Work Style Reform

Nurturing life after Japan’s tsunami

11 March 2011. The TV screen was showing live images of the tsunami as it struck Japan’s eastern coast. From what the reporter was saying, I quickly realized that the images were of my mother’s hometown, where I had spent my summer vacations as a...

324th session of ILO Governing Body

ILO Governing Body elects Misako Kaji as new chairperson

Misako Kaji, Permanent Representative of Japan to the International Organizations in Geneva will head the International Labour Organization’s executive body for the period 2015-2016.

Moscow hosts international seminar of public employment services

On September 17-18, Russia’s Federal Service for Labour and Employment (Rostrud) held an international seminar for members of the World Association of Public Employment Services focusing on models of public employment service (PES): centralized and...

Livelihood recovery

Japanese Government donates US$3 million to help Typhoon Haiyan victims

The Japanese Government is to fund a US$3,000,000 project to help the victims of Typhoon Haiyan rebuild their livelihoods.

ILO response to natural disaster

Lessons from Japan's tsunami response to aid Philippines Typhoon Haiyan victims

A high-level ILO delegation from the Philippines agreed during a visit to Japan that creating decent work opportunities will be the key to the long-term success of the response to Typhoon Haiyan.

Japan allocates US$500,000 to help typhoon Haiyan livelihood recovery

The Government of Japan and the ILO have allocated US$500,000 to help support the post-Haiyan response in the Philippines. The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan has provided the funds under the ILO/Japan Fund for Building Social Safety...

Labour standards

Japan ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)

Japan is the 40th ILO Member State to have its ratification registered and the 10th from the Asia-Pacific region – after Singapore, Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Palau, Philippines, Tuvalu and Viet Nam – to have ratified the...

Partnership for skills training

ILO-Japan sign ¥30,831,000 skills’ training initiative

A collaboration between the Government of Japan and the International Labour Organization will strengthen a range of courses offered by the International Training Centre in Turin, Italy.

Natural disaster

Back to life after the great East Japan earthquake

Residents of a city devastated by the 2011 tsunami pick up the pieces, showing just how crucial jobs are in times of disaster-recovery.

Social finance

Giving banks a good name

Is it possible for banks to devote themselves to the financial welfare of workers and still survive financial crises? The ILO looks at the Rokin Bank, a union-led cooperative in Japan.

ILO & Japan sign agreement to support natural disaster recovery in Asia-Pacific

The ILO and the Government of Japan have signed a new Framework for Cooperation agreement that will assist Asia-Pacific countries in dealing with the effects of natural disasters and strengthen the role of employment in early recovery and...

ILO Asia and the Pacific Regional Meeting concludes with Recommendations to counter employment consequences of global economic turmoil

Representatives of governments, workers and employers from the Asian, Pacific and Arab states have concluded a four day meeting at which they discussed ways the region could prepare to counter the consequences of the current economic uncertainty.

The Indonesian Minister of Manpower promotes decent work at the ILO Regional Meeting in Japan

The Government of Indonesia urges countries in Asia and the Pacific region to develop employment policies which focus on social protection and job creation for, especially, young people.

ILO Director-General says policy makers need to reconnect with the needs of working families and put job creation at the centre of economic...

The Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Mr Juan Somavia, warned that “dark clouds” are gathering again in Asia, even as growth rebounds and investment is flowing back. Asia’s economy is more open than ever before but...

ILO Director-General praises Japan's commitment to decent work, says efforts to solve global economic crisis must put people first

The Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Mr Juan Somavia, praised Japan's commitment to creating decent work opportunities for women, men and young people, and called on the country to continue to use its voice in the...