Ａ.　There are any characteristics of Japanese employment system, “lifetime employment” and “pay system based on seniority”. Affected by advancing globalization and economy situation, these systems are diminishing, but there some old customs in presence.

Employment style

• Those customs like lifetime employment and payment system based on seniority have been contributing to Japanese economic growth and stability.
• The other hands there are many companies adopt systems like “part time worker” “out sourcing” “merit system” “performance based payment system” etc.
• But Japanese length of employment is longer than any other countries in the world.

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Country	Shorter than 1years	1≦★≦10	10≦
Japan	7.9	46.2	45.8
U.S.A.	22.3	48.9	28.8
Germany	14.6	45.1	40.3
France	15.1	39.2	45.6
Korea	30.7	47.7	21.5
Australia	20.9	54.1	25.0

＊independent governmental labor policy research and training institution
Comparing international labor data book 2019(data 2017)

Productive age population

Japanese productive age population（15～64）
It becomes big problem for the companies in Japan to secure sufficient labors for the lack of labor force effected by population decreasing, it is very important to prepare for establish business in Japan.

（Thousand, ％）

Country	2000年	2010年	2020年 (prediction)	2030年 (prediction)
Japan	8,701(68.2)	8,246(64.1)	7,482 (59.2)	7,004(58.0)
U.S.A.	18,583(66.0)	20,646(66.8)	21,514(65.0)	21,767(62.3)
Germany	5,522(67.8)	5,325(65.9)	5,392(64.4)	4,948(59.5)
France	3,838(65.0)	4,066(64.7)	4,020(61.6)	3,980(59.7)
China	88,273(68.4)	100,287(73.3)	101,213(70.3)	98,650(67.4)
Korea	3,421(72.2)	3,627(73.2)	3,674(71.7)	3,314(64.8)
Australia	1,269(66.8)	1,497(67.6)	1,645(64.5)	1,758(62.4)

＊independent governmental labor policy research and training institution
Comparing international labor data book 2019