Japan’s job availability ratio increased for the sixth consecutive month in June, indicating an increase in hiring across industries, according to data released on Friday.
The jobs-to-applicants ratio climbed to 1.27 from the previous month, indicating that there were 127 job openings for every 100 job seekers in Japan, The Mainichi reported, citing data from the Japanese labor ministry.
The hotel and restaurant industry was doing particularly well with a 30.9 percent increase in job openings compared to 2021, due in part to the loosening of border controls for international travelers to Japan.
The unemployment rate remained unchanged at 2.6 percent in June, although the seasonally unadjusted number of unemployed people decreased by 210,000 from the previous year to 1.86 million people….