The Tokyo Metropolitan Government headquarters, center, and other high-rise buildings are seen in the capital's Shinjuku Ward in this April 2020 photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter.

Many panels tasked with discussing prefectural minimum wages have recommended increases exceeding record-high national ...

A Japanese government council started discussions at a meeting Friday on compiling its proposal on the size of hike in minimum wages for fiscal 2026. In this year's "shunto" labor-management ...

The Japanese government is considering delaying its goal of raising the country's average minimum hourly wages to 1,500 yen by the end of the 2020s, people familiar with the matter said Friday. One id ...