Japan uses a variety of training approaches to develop skilled labor force, as commitment to traditional lifetime employment system appears to be waning. (Editor)

Three models of lifetime employment, a Japanese concept, are the stationary model, the growth model, and the stagnation model. (SK)

A Bureau of Labor Statistics analysis of Japan's labor force data concludes that Japanese unemployment rates are only slightly understated relative to U.S. concepts. Differences in institutions, attitudes, and economic and social structures account for much of the low unemployment rate in Japan. (SK)

Comparison of seven indicators (long-term unemployment, job losers, adult unemployment, full-time unemployment, conventional unemployment, part-time work for economic reasons, and discouraged workers) in North America, Europe, and Japan show that Sweden and Japan have the largest unemployment increase. Long-term joblessness prevailed in Europe;…

A rebuttal to Beatrice G. Ruebens' article in the September 1973 issue of the journal. (AG)

The paternalistic industrial system is not likely to be discarded soon; in today's fast-moving economy, it affords cost flexibility and employment security. (Editor)