Companies started employment interviews on Wednesday with university students due to graduate in spring 2017.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was determined to accompany U.S. President Barack Obama on his visit to Hiroshima.
Sadayuki Sakakibara, chairman of the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren), said Thursday he “expects next year’s wage hike to exceed this year’s” at companies with good performance.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the government will work to boost the minimum wage to a national average of ¥1,000 per hour, through a policy encouraging wage hikes of about 3 percent every year. He made the remarks during a Tuesday meeting of the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy that he chairs.
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