Market pressure combined with global market changes have weakened japans’ traditional model of durable employment, leading businesses that need to cut costs to increasingly recruit workers with irregular contracts. However, the quest for flexibility doesn’t only materialize through recruitments but also through internal flexibility levers and other adjustments of working conditions.
Traditional employment is losing speed. Over the period of high economic growth following the war and the first oil crisis, Japan developed its current employment system based on long-term employment. Thus, labor market stability was built on the principle of stable employment and employees loyal to their employer. Training systems, pay, labor law and policies: all used to reflect the practice of long-term employment. With the traditional security provisions on the Japanese labor market, pe
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