Front-page data in The Nikkei evening edition—job openings-to-applicants ratios and unemployment figures—further confirm the success of Abenomics.
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May 31, 2016

In today’s evening edition of The Nikkei, there was a large front-page headline featuring an article that further proves that Abenomics was entirely correct.
Japanese citizens aged 18 and over who have voting rights this year will never lead Japan astray if they read my essays and vote accordingly.
Under no circumstances should they believe the truly childish malice of the Asahi Shimbun—which has relentlessly worked to belittle, demean, humiliate, and oppress Japan—or of the Democratic Party, whose thinking is shaped by the opinions of editorial writers who not only hold deeply distorted ideas but have in effect been manipulated by China, a one-party communist dictatorship, and by South Korea, which has made anti-Japanese education a national policy.
All emphasis in the text except the headline is mine.
Job openings-to-applicants ratio improves to 1.34.
First time in 24 years; Tokyo exceeds 2.0.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare’s announcement on the 31st, the active job openings-to-applicants ratio for April (seasonally adjusted) rose by 0.04 points from the previous month to 1.34, the highest level in 24 years and five months since November 1991.
The increase marks the second consecutive month. Severe labor shortages continue across a wide range of industries, pushing up the number of job openings. By prefecture, Tokyo’s ratio reached 2.02, the highest level since June 1974.
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The ratio for full-time employees (seasonally adjusted) also reached 0.85, the highest since the survey began in November 2004.
Until now, increases in job openings mainly for non-regular employees had driven up the ratio, but conditions for full-time employment have also shown steady improvement.
In addition, the job openings-to-applicants ratio by work location, calculated for each prefecture, exceeded 1.0 in all prefectures for the first time since data collection began in February 2005.
The total unemployment rate for April (seasonally adjusted), announced the same day by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, was 3.2 percent, unchanged from the previous month.
The number of unemployed persons in April (original figures) fell by 100,000 from a year earlier to 2.24 million, marking the 71st consecutive month of decline.
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