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Labour market

Japan · Job openings-to-applicants ratio (Japan)

Active job openings per job seeker registered at Japan's public employment security offices (Hello Work), seasonally adjusted, excluding new school graduates, part-time included. Above 1 there are more openings than applicants. Published monthly by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, it is, with the unemployment rate, the most quoted labour-market figure in Japan. It only counts openings and seekers that go through the public offices.· Public offices only; history available from 2022
1.19ratio
Sep 2026
−0.8 %vs Sep 2025
min 1.17 May 2026max 1.35 Nov 2022
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Source: MHLW (via JILPT), Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, via JILPT· Data Sep 2026
Openings per applicant at public employment offices, seas. adj.Public offices only; history available from 2022Upd. 11/2026Y-axis truncated
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