5.1% jobless rate lowest in two years

[Big Booger]

Compiled from AP, Kyodo

Japan's unemployment rate eased to 5.1 percent in August, the lowest rate in two years, amid signs that rising exports and corporate profits are pushing the economy toward a turnaround.

Data released Tuesday by the government's Labor Force Statistics Office show jobs were added in the retail, medical, services and farming sectors, while construction and manufacturing jobs were shed.

Japan's labor market has stagnated amid a long-term slowdown. The unemployment rate for August was the lowest since it hit 5 percent in August 2001.

http://www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20031001a1.htm


This should also correlate to a decrease in suicides?

[Taro Toporific]

C...the government's Labor Force Statistics Office show jobs were added in the retail, medical, services and farming sectors..

Moshi moshi "FARMING"?! How might have Japan managed to increase its number of world's-most-inefficient farmers? It couldn't be UNEMPLOYED shit-for-brains salarymen returning to the farm, could it?

[Big Booger]

Yah,
Maybe they are trying to outcompete China on gohan pricing???
LMAO