Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT) monthly report compiling major labor-related statistical survey results for June 2025.
Key Points
1. Public Assistance and Labor Market Trends
- Public assistance recipients: 2,000,090 people (0.9% decrease from same month last year)
- Recipient households: 1,647,346 households (0.2% decrease)
- Unemployment rate: 2.5% (same as previous month), 1.72 million unemployed
- Job openings-to-applicants ratio: 1.24 (0.02 point decrease from previous month)
2. Wages and Working Hours
- Total cash earnings: 2.3% increase year-on-year (preliminary), 2.0% increase (final)
- Real wages: 1.8% decrease year-on-year (excluding imputed rent)
- Total actual working hours: 1.2% decrease year-on-year
- Manufacturing scheduled overtime: 2.1% increase month-on-month (seasonally adjusted)
3. Prices and Economic Trends
- Consumer Price Index (general): 3.5% increase year-on-year
- Industrial Production Index: 0.5% increase month-on-month, basic assessment "fluctuating indecisively"
- Business Conditions DI coincident index: 115.5, basic assessment "bottoming out"
- Real GDP growth rate: -0.0% quarter-on-quarter (-0.2% annualized)
4. Other Important Indicators
- Industrial accident frequency rate: 2.10 (previous year 2.14)
- Employment of persons with disabilities: 115,609 cases (4.4% increase from previous year)
- Workers' compensation claims for overwork: 4,810 cases (212 increase from previous year)
- Basic survey on human resource development: 54.9% of companies with training expenditures
The report comprehensively presents the latest trends in Japan's labor market and economy, serving as fundamental material for policy planning and corporate management.