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Integrated approaches for formalization in Asia and the Pacific
This report highlights why the multi-faceted dimensions of informality demand an integrated approach to formalization, outlines the nature of an integrated approach to employment formalization, reviews the extent that countries in Asia and the Pacific are applying integrated approaches to formalization, and provides examples and an action-oriented outline for advancing integrated approaches to formalization in the region.
Responsible Business Conduct and Human Rights Due Diligence: Good Practices of Japanese Companies
This case studies report summarizes good practices on human rights due diligence by Japanese enterprises engaged in manufacturing, including textiles/apparel, electronics and electronic parts, and have operations or business partners in Bangladesh, Cambodia and Viet Nam. Under the project "Building Responsible Value Chains in Asia" funded by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), ILO Office for Japan and the Research & Analysis Department of the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) conducted joint research on trade relations between Japan and Bangladesh, Cambodia and Vietnam, policies related to the promotion of RBC, as well as enterprise-level good practices on RBC and human rights due diligence. This case studies report was developed based on the excerpt from the “Responsible Business Conduct and Human Rights Due Diligence: Good Practices of Japanese Companies Operating in Bangladesh, Cambodia and Viet Nam, Trade, Investment and Labour Nexus and A Way Forward”, which will be published separately.
Youth employment
Technology in public employment services to promote youth employment in Asia and the Pacific
This report provides insights into how public employment services in Asia-Pacific are digitally transforming and how they are using technology to support youth in the labour market.
Youth employment
Japan - Technology in public employment services to promote youth employment
This country profile on technology in public employment services (PES) for youth is part of the ILO (2023) report on Technology in public employment services to promote youth employment in Asia and the Pacific. The report provides insights into how PES in Asia-Pacific are digitally transforming and how they are using technology to support youth in the labour market.
Publication
A Review of Wage Setting through Collective Bargaining
Japan-ILO Cooperation
Factsheet, April 2023
Advancing Safety & Health at Work - Japan contribution
This fact sheet highlights key results achieved in the field of safety and health at work through seven projects funded by the Government of Japan in 2021-2022.
Policy recommendations for Japan towards achieving the labour dimension of corporate social responsibility - Japan’s national policy concerning business and human rights
Green jobs
Japan: The Employment - Environment - Climate Nexus: Employment and environmental sustainability factsheet
The Employment-Environment-Climate Nexus Factsheets are a series produced for countries in the Asia-Pacific region. This Factsheet provides key features of labour market and environmental sustainability performance in Japan, as well as vulnerability to climate change and sectors with green jobs potential.
Responsible Supply Chains in Vehicle Parts Industry Case Studies and Challenges
The report provides good practices and challenges in line with international instruments including the ILO’s Multinational Enterprises Declaration, by researching responsible supply chains implemented by Japanese enterprises in the automotive component industry in Thailand.
Responsible Supply Chains in Asia: The Electronics Sector in Japan
This report generates an in-depth understanding of employment and labour issues in the electronics sector in Asian countries where Japanese multinational enterprises (MNEs) have their operation and sourcing.
Social protection
Extending social health protection: Accelerating progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Asia and the Pacific
This regional report documents and analyses country experiences and lessons on the extension of social health protection coverage in the Asia and the Pacific region. It provides a detailed account of progress made, challenges encountered and remaining coverage gaps, and explores their root causes.
Development and formalization in Asia: Insights from Japan, Republic of Korea and Singapore
This report examines the historical socio-economic pathways that facilitated the creation of labour markets that were dominantly formal in nature in three advanced economies – Japan, Republic of Korea and Singapore. The case studies emphasize the complementarities between national political economy and labour market dynamics and draws lessons, where possible, for the emerging economies of today that strive to accelerate the closing of formality gaps.
Mapping the Social and Solidarity Economy Landscape in Asia - Spotlight on Japan
This brief is part of the series “Mapping the Social and Solidarity Economy Landscape in Asia” that presents the SSE landscape for six countries in Asia, policy challenges and preliminary pathways for strengthening SSE in the region. The research is part of the ILO project “Strengthening Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) Policy in Asia,” implemented in partnership with the Korea Social Enterprise Promotion Agency (KoSEA) and supported by the Korean Ministry of Employment and Labour (MOEL). This brief is focused on Japan.
Domestic workers
Making decent work a reality for domestic workers: Progress and prospects in Asia and the Pacific, ten years after the adoption of the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)
In 2011, the international community adopted the ILO’s Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189), which recognized for the first time that domestic work is work and that domestic workers should enjoy the same labour protections as all other workers.
Cooperation among Cooperatives in Action between Japan and Africa - 10 Years of ILO/JCCU African Cooperative Leaders’ Study Tour
This retrospective booklet tells the story of a decade of collaboration between the Japanese Consumers' Co-operative Union (JCCU) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) through the ILO/JCCU African Cooperative Leaders’ Study Tour Programme. Compared to other study tours, the ILO/JCCU study tour is unique both for its duration of ten days, and its continuity for ten years. This booklet reflects on the experiences of those who participated in the study tours across the past decade and includes messages from ILO/JCCU/JCA staff and highlights from roundtable discussions. In addition, it includes information on the ILO’s work on cooperative development, international and Japanese cooperative movements and the contributions of cooperatives toward achieving the SDGs.
Summary report of the Global research webinar "Towards a brighter future of work in the digital economy" (30 September 2020)
Rokin Banks’ responses to the COVID-19 outbreak in Japan
Like any other country, the population and economy of Japan are badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The preliminary figures for real GDP in the second quarter of 2020 show a decline of 7.8%. Rokin Banks (a network of 13 union-led cooperative financial institutions) are well positioned to provide support and protect the livelihoods of workers and their families, given their 70-year-experience in building an inclusive society and advancing financial inclusion of workers. Read about the special measures that Rokin Banks have recently introduced in this short brief.
Policy design of employment adjustment subsidy in Japan
This paper aims to review and summarize the feature and design of the Employment Adjustment Subsidy (Koyou Chousei Joseikin) in Japan in order to contribute to discussions in Indonesia about policy designs on unemployment protection.
Japan - Country baselines under the ILO Declaration (2000-2019)