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Ensuring safety and health at work in a changing climate

Climate change is a real threat to worker safety across the Asia-Pacific region. To mark World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2024, ILO Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific Chihoko Asada-Miyakawa explains what needs to change.

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.

New partnership to advance occupational health agreed between ILO and Japan’s University of Occupational and Environmental Health

The International Labour Organization and Japan’s University of Occupational and Environmental Health and have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will create the basis for a collaboration to strengthen workers' access to occupational health services worldwide.

Japan Highlights

ILO sends message for the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the ICA-AP Committee on Women

The event focused on the theme of Gender Equality for a Brighter Future. It was organized by the ICA-AP Committee on Women, as hosted by the Japanese Consumers’ Co-operative Union (JCCU), September 19, 2023.

Policy Brief

Minimum wage response to COVID-19 and inflation crises: An Asia-Pacific region overview

This policy brief presents a comprehensive analysis of nominal and real minimum wages in the Asia-Pacific region from 2015 to 2022, taking into account the impact of inflation on the purchasing power of workers. Concentrating on 22 countries with available data, the study reveals a positive trend in real minimum wages before 2020, with an average annual increase of 2.5% between 2015 and 2019. However, commencing in late 2020, real minimum wages experienced a decline due to irregular adjustments and the inflationary consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and regional crises. Addressing this decline is of utmost importance to safeguard the well-being of workers and foster sustainable economic development within the region.

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.

Japan - Country baseline under the ILO Declaration Annual Review (2022) - P029

ILO Office for Japan supports a special dialogue session on the future of the social and solidarity economy in Tokyo

On the 17 June 2023, the Institute for Solidarity-based Society (Rengo Institute) at Hosei University, with the support of the ILO Office for Japan, held a public lecture on 'Special Dialogue Session: The Future of the SSE” in Tokyo, Japan.

Publication

A Review of Wage Setting through Collective Bargaining

Japan-ILO Cooperation

Factsheet, April 2023

ILO Japan Centenary

ILO Director-General praises Japan’s social justice achievements

More than 230 constituents, civil partners, partner institutions, and young people attended the ILO Office for Japan’s centenary celebrations, which took place in central Tokyo on Tuesday, 25 April.

Case study on the ratification of Convention 181: Japan

Key role of private employment agencies in strengthening national labour markets: The Japan way

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.

Social dialogue

Governments, employers and workers meet to strengthen industrial relations in Southeast Asia

Nine Southeast Asian countries and Japan highlight the importance of social dialogue for competitive business, growth and decent work.

Fostering Labour and Social Security Attorneys in Business and Human Rights

ILO Newsletter: Business and Human Rights

Travelogue on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station by Shinichi Takasaki

Responsible business conduct in Japan electronics supply chains

Traditionally dominated by vertically integrated firms, the electronics sector moved towards modular industry structures sometime in the 1980s, as the components required to produce electronic goods became more standardized. Under a modular production, assembly operations can easily be separated from technology development, and basic, high-volume components can easily be substituted. This substitutability narrows profit margins in the manufacturing segments and has led to a high degree of offshoring and outsourcing throughout the value chain.