This bulletin contains information on law changes that have either passed, or are being discussed, in parliament, court decisions, and other labor issues in Japan that are of interest to activists.
In this bulletin:
- Government economic measures draft revealed: Strengthening monitoring of real estate transactions by foreigners and others
- “Number of Foreign Residents as of the End of June 2025” November 10, 2025, Immigration Services Agency
- “Illegal Overstayers in Japan (as of July 1, 2025)” November 10, 2025, Immigration Services Agency
- Monetary resolution of dismissals: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare study group to discuss system design
- Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to mandate workers’ compensation insurance for some agriculture, forestry and fisheries businesses
- Semiconductor inspection equipment major and employee in his 40s settle over “take-home overtime”: Over 200 hours per month at home in busy months
- Illegal overtime work at 1,545 workplaces in Tokyo: Over 10% increase from previous year, Tokyo Labour Bureau reports case of 227 hours of overtime and holiday work per month
- Over half of employees owed unpaid overtime: Discovered through whistleblower investigation in Handa, Aichi
- Seven ALTs at Kyoto prefectural high schools strike: Claim dispatch company wage cut “unjust”
- Suspected of facilitating illegal employment at “cut vegetable” factory in Saitama: Market has doubled in 10 years
- Trial regarding Kan’nana Branch: Osaka High Court partially acquits in second trial
- UA Zensen’s wage increase target is 6% or more for regular employees, 7% for part-timers – 2026 spring labor offensive
- Keidanren to propose “reconstruction of work style reform”: “Expansion of working hours by choice”
- “Foreign population increase leads to crime increase” has no basis: Governors’ association drafts declaration for public
- GDP July-September negative for the first time in 6 quarters: Real growth rate minus 1.8%