Japan Unemployment Rate Rises To 3.6%



The unemployment rate in Japan came in at 3.6 percent in September, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications said on Friday - in line with expectations and up from 3.5 percent in August. The job-to-applicant ratio was 1.09, missing forecasts for 1.10 - which would have been unchanged. The number of employed persons in September was 64.02 million, an increase of 430,000 or 0.7 percent on year. The number of unemployed persons in September was 2.33 million, a decrease of 250,000 or 9.7 percent on year. The participation rate was 59.9 percent.


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