- Estimate says \1.3 trillion reserve can be secured: support systems may continue
- “Guide to Amended Points of the Family and Childcare Leave Act, to Take Effect in Three Stages Starting on April 1, Reiwa 4 [2022]” MHWL
- Employment insurance premium to be raised next year: funds drying up due to COVID-19–gov’t.
- LDP decides general outline for next years tax amendments: “wage-raise tax system” etc.
- Unemployment benefits for those whose own businesses fail: period to be extendable up to four years
- 870 million in overtime unpaid: LSIO citations for 18 national universities
- “We are a platform”, insists Uber management to Tokyo Labor Commission
- Panasonic apologizes for “take-home overtime” work, settles with family of employee who committed suicide: Toyama
- “Percentage pay is not overtime pay”: verdict orders taxi company to pay \105 million
- Total population down by 0.7%, to 126.14 million; foreign residents number 2.74 million, a new high record–2020 national census final figures
- Tokyo to introduce same-sex partner system within fiscal 2022, announces Governor Koike
- Uber drivers equivalent to employees, says new EU bill: guaranteed minimum wage, paid holidays
- And more!

(Translated from Japanese)