Japan's jobless rate rises

[Big Booger]

Japan's unemployment rate rose to 5.2 percent in October from 5.1 percent a month earlier, the government says.

Economists in a Reuters poll last week had forecast a median 5.1 percent figure. Unemployment reached a record high of 5.5 percent in January.



The Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications said Friday that the number of employed people, including self-employed, fell for the third straight month, dropping by 180,000 from a year earlier to 63.37 million.

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/BUSINESS/11/27/japan.jobless.reut/index.html

[Robato]

This sucks for someone like me who just got married and will be selling my businesses in the states to open new ones here.

[Big Booger]

You might want to rethink that plan Robato.

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

ITs because sony have started laying off thoes 20,000 workers. Also there are another few big companys that have been laying off on the sly over the last few months

.1% i am sorry about these good statistics