Japan's unemployment rate improves for 1st time in 4 months in Nov.
2019-12-29 09:51:19 source：Global Times
December 28, 2019
Japan's unemployment rate improved in November for the first time in four months, the government said in a report on Friday.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the unemployment rate stood at 2.2 percent in the recording month, dropping 0.2 percentage point from October.
Unadjusted for seasonal factors, the number of unemployed people was 1.51 million in the recording month, down by 170,000 from a year earlier and still hovering near the lowest levels since the early 1990s amid the nation's ongoing labor crunch.
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