Ａ.　The situation of working population and skilled work resources.

Working population

（thousand ,％）

	Working Population			Total unemployment rate
		employed	Unemployment
Shizuoka	2,034	1,994	40	2.0％
Japan	68,982	67,445	1,534	2.4％

＊the ministry of internal affairs research labor force（2019）

 Educational institution（University, College, technical college）

 

	type	quantity	name
National	University,graduate school	3	Shizuoka, graduate university for advanced studies、Hamamatsu medical
	technical college	1	Numazu technical college
Public	University, graduate school	2	Shizuoka prefectural, shizuoka culture and art
	College,technical college	1	Shizuoka prefectural
private	University, graduate school	12	Shizuoka Eiwa gakuin, Shizuoka industry Shizuoka welfare, shizuoka science and engineering,Juntendo(health and sanitation),Seirei Cristpher, Tokai(sea),Tokoha, Nihon(international relation),Hamamatsu Gakuin,The graduate school for the creation of newphotonics industries, Hosei
	College, technical college	5	Shizuoka Eiwa Gakuin, Tokai, Tokoha,Nihon, Hamamatsu Gakuin

Nation

Rank	Japan		Shizuoka
1	China	124,436（39.9％）	China	437（37.2％）
2	Vietnam	73,389（23.5％）	Vietnam	220（18.7％）
3	Nepal	26,308（ 8.4％）	Korea	59（ 5.0％）
4	Korea	18,338（ 5.9％）	Indonesia	123（10.5％）
5	Taiwan	9,384（ 3.1％）	Banglaskilldesh	56（ 4.8％）
total	－	312,214（　－　）	－	1,176（　－　）

＊JASSO（2019）, Shizuoka prefecture, Shizuoka foreign students interaction conference（2019）

Ａ.　Shizuoka is the best place for manufacturer by high level infrastructure, accumulated manufacturing industry, full assistance.

High level infrastructure

• From the old time the shizuoka is called as the strategic point in japan archipelago、transport infrastructure for example Tomei express way, new Tomei express way, Fujisan airport etc. makes possible to access domestic and foreign countries.
• Fujisan Shizuoka airport has many lanes through Shanghai Pudong (China)and Inchoen (Korea).

Full transportation infrastructure

• Shizuoka prefecture has made effort for over 40 years to protect earthquake disaster to live and doing business in safety, well known “advanced prefecture against earthquake.
• The ratio of earthquake-resistant of public school building is 99.5％, and the ratio of supplies of city and town is 95.9％, etc. Shizuoka prefectural government is promoting measures to protect the life by making strong environment.

accumulation of manufacturing industry

• ・ The Amount of shipping products of Shizuoka Pref. is ranked no.4 in Japan.
  Mainly related transportation machine manufacturers are accumulating over one thousand.

Rank of shizuoka in japan（employee number =more than 4 ）

rank	Number		employee		Amount of products (billion yen)
1	Osaka	15,500	Aichi	863,149	Aichi	48,720
2	Aichi	15,322	Osaka	447,404	Kanagawa	18,443
3	Saitama	10,796	Shizuoka	413,309	Osaka	17,561
4	Tokyo	9,870	Saitama	399,193	Shizuoka	17,539
5	Shizuoka	9,002	Kanagawa	355,924	Hyogo	16,507

The ministry of economy ,trade and industry: industry statistics（2020

• ・ There are many world brand corporation in Shizuoka like Suzuki motor vehicle, Yamaha musical instruments etc.

Global brand corporation

• There are 3158 companies invested in japan. The base of 739 companies are located in except for Tokyo and the number of bases of manufacturing located in shizuoka is No.1 in Japan.

The number of base

Rank	Headquarters		Manufacturing		Development		Logistics
1	Kanagawa	220	Shizuoka	33	Kanagawa	14	Osaka,Kanagawa	14
2	Osaka	100	Kanagawa	29	Ibaragi	8
3	Hyogo	68	Ibaragi	20	Hyogo	7	Chiba	12
4	Chiba	38	Chiba	19	ShizuokaAichi	6	Aichi	10
5	Saitama	33	Aichi	18			Shizuoka,Saitama	6

＊『Data bank of foreign company in Japan2014』

Full assistance

• We have many kinds of support “subsidy for establish factory or development facility” “finance for advancing into new industry”「” medical, food, assist for the industry related to light and electronics”
• Especially for foreign companies, one stop center for foreign companies supports to find land and to do any other procedures.

Ａ.　You can enjoy abundant nature in the foot of Mt. Fuji and mild climate.

“FUJI no kuni”Shizuoka

You can enjoy four distinct seasons with Japanese no.1 Mt Fuji

：Shizuoka Tourism Organization

temperature	Highest 32.3℃～ lowest 2.3℃ average 17.6℃
Sunlight hours /year	2099
Snowfall	1 day

In travel cite, Atami and Ito onsen are ranked no 1 and no 2 in Japanese all SPA.
And the number of hotels in Shizuoka is most in Japan.
The number of Shizuoka pref. 2928 is ranked no 1 in Japan (49,502).

Life environment in compact and balanced

(thousand yen, hour/minute)

Prefecture	Individual income	Transportation hours	Working hours	Sleeping hours
Shizuoka	3,300	68	5/56	7/38
Tokyo	5,348	94	5/39	7/35
Aichi	3,633	79	5/57	7/35
Kyoto	2,926	80	5/42	7/49
Osaka	3,056	85	5/52	7/36
Japan	3,217	79	5/55	7/40

＊the cabinet office economy and social research institute（2016 data）

Low cost for life

prefecture	Average land price （yen/㎡）
	For house	For commercial business	For manufacturing
Shizuoka	64,500	140,900	46,600
Tokyo	378,100	2,145,600	250,400
Aichi	104,300	423,900	57,700
Kyoto	109,300	102,700	78,900
Osaka	150,700	1,060,400	108,600

＊the ministry of land and transportation
Research of prefectural land price（2020）

Ａ.　Shizuoka pref. is located in the central of Japan, abundantly blessed with nature in the foot of Mt. Fuji, mild climate, having highly advanced industry and infrastructure.

Land、population, individual income of Shizuoka pref.

		unit	Japan	Shizuoka	Share%	rank
area		Km2	377,947	7,777	2.1	13
Population		Thousand	126,443	3,659	2.9	10
Foreign resident		Persons	2,829,416	96,654	3.4	8
Nominal Output		Million yen	549,866,191	17,044,389	3.1	10
Base as industry	Total		5,340,783	172,031	3.2	10
	Construction		492,734	17,654	3.6	9
	Manufacturing		454,800	19,526	4.3	5
	Sales		1,355,060	43,072	3.2	10
	Service		346,616	10,380	3.0	10
industry	Base		188,249	9,138	4.9	5
	Employee	Persons	7,697,321	405,154	5.3	3
	Shipment	Million yen	319,166,725	16,787,113	5.3	4

Ａ.　It is needs to report the labor standards office, the public employment security office and the pension office etc.

It is possible to rely on a social insurance labor consultant who is specialized in calculate salary, procedures of labor and social insurance and pension

receiver	report	content
The labor standards office	Work rules(law of labor standards)	In case employ over 10 employee, make work rules include（time of start and close, holiday, leave, decision of salary, hoe to pay, allowance, bonus, retirement etc.）and report
	Agreement of overtime work, holiday work(law of labor standards)	Make and report the agreement of general overtime work and holiday work.
	the start of insurances (law of labor premium collection)	In case start the place employ, report within 10 days.
The public employment office	Establish the place adopted employment insurance(law of employment insurance)	When establishing business place, report the kind of business, the number of applied employees and purpose of establishing place etc. within 10 days for applied the employment insurance.
	Entitled as employee adopted   employment insurance (law of employment insurance)	Report the fact employee applied for employment insurance until the 10th of next moth
The pension office	Place adopted for Health insurance and  corporate employee pension plan (law of health insurance and law of cooperate employee pension plan)	When establishing place for business the name of place, address, kind of business etc. within 5　days to the pension office. And start  employment, report application of employment insurance within 5　days to pension office.
The tax office	Start of place paying wage for employee(law of income tax)	Report the payment of wage.

 

Ａ.　It needs for employ ”employment insurance” ”industrial accident insurance” ”health insurance” “the corporate employee pension plan insurance” and the premium has to be paid by both company and employee, and only by company. General premium of Shizuoka prefecture is below.2020）

Kind	Outline	coverage	Premium rate （year wage1×％）
			employer	employee
Employment insurance	For the unemployed, children left, senior	In case the work time is over 20hours /week	0.6％	0.3％
Industrial accident insurance	For injury and sick occurred by working and transportation	All business place employing	0.3％(*4)	－
Health ・caring insurance	For other case above and childbirth	All employee, part time worker	4.865％(*1)
Corporate employee pension plan insurance	For aging, disability, death	〃	9.15％	9.15％
Contribution for Allowance for children	Contribution for Allowance for children（not paid for employee）		0.36％	－
total			15.275％(*2)	14.315％(*3)

(*1) (*2) (*3) add 1.58% premium for caring insurance to employee age over 40 year old
(*4) depend on kind of industry (0.3-2.6%)

Ａ.　Salary （before reduction of tax and social insurance premium）

• Basic salary, allowance based on responsibility, transportation etc.（not include bonus and allowance for overtime work）
• Annual wage is approximately (basic salary ×（12＋4～5(bonus)）Wage rebel according to prefecture and industry

（thousand yen）

Rank	Prefecture	age	Length of employment(year)t	salary
				Total	manufacturing	Wholesaling/retailing	service
Total		43.1	12.4	307.7	295.2	315.7	262.6
1位	Tokyo	42.5	12.2	379.0	372.7	387.1	307.3
2位	Kanagawa	43.4	12.5	341.1	351.1	336.1	282.2
3位	Osaka	42.9	12.4	332.2	326.6	337.9	276.3
4位	Aichi	42.2	13.3	318.5	312.3	336.0	262.9
5位	Hyogo	42.5	12.0	305.3	306.4	304.2	260.5
18位	Shizuoka	43.4	12.7	287.1	290.8	271.0	239.9
42位	Saga	44.0	12.0	249.4	245.4	240.0	218.3
43位	Iwate	44.4	12.6	245.7	242.5	239.1	211.2
44位	Yamagata	43.6	13.6	245.3	237.7	238.1	201.7
45位	Akita	44.6	13.6	243.9	231.9	246.6	209.1
46位	Miyazaki	43.9	11.6	243.0	229.4	244.7	201.7
47位	Aomori	44.5	12.6	239.0	216.2	244.2	200.2

*the ministry of health, labor and welfare :wage structure 2019

Wage rebel according to age and academic back ground

（thousand yen）

Academic back ground	total	20～24	30～34	40～44	50～54
Total	307.0	210.9	275.9	329.6	373.5
University/Graduate school	372.6	227.0	308.7	408.5	512.5
Technical college	283.2	210.3	255.9	294.4	332.4
High school	267.6	196.9	243.1	283.2	307.3
Junior high school	249.1	194.8	236.8	272.0	279.5

＊The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare : wage structure research（2019）

Difference of salary according to age and type of employment

Academic back ground	total	20～24	30～34	40～44	50～54
Regular employee	325.4	214.6	284.8	344.4	398.6
Other	211.2	180.8	204.7	208.2	206.6

＊The Ministry of Health , Labor and Welfare: Wage structure research（2019）

Ａ.　The rule of Japanese payment system is below

Basic principle

• The wage has to be paid to the employee “over one time in a month” “at the decided day” “by the currency” and “directly”
• But if accepted by the employee, it is possible to pay to the bank account.

Security of minimum wage

• Law of the security minimum wage, the minimum wage is prescribed for each prefecture.
• Minimum wage of main prefecture in 2019 is below
• Minimum wage is increasing because of the lack of labor shortage.

（yen, hourly wage）

	Hokkaido	Tokyo	Kanagawa	Shizuoka	Aichi	Osaka	Fukuoka	average
Minimum wage	861	1,013	1,011	885	926	964	841	901

＊The ministry of health, labor and welfare

Wage system

•  Monthly salary: usually Japanese company pay wage monthly. In addition to the monthly wage pays two times bonus in summer and winter.
• Japanese wagea

  a　salary is consist of basic wage, (several kinds of allowance “housing,
  Family and transportation etc.)

  b　the weight of bonus is large in wage. （private company’s bonus is usually 4-5 months of salary equivalent : Japan business federation）

• The company is increasing to introduce annual salary system. Under the Japanese legal of labor, it is advantageous for employees.

Retirement allowance

• Almost of Japanese company has retirement allowance system and the amount of allowance depends on the salary, working year and the reason of retirement.
• Those allowance is favor for employee at taxation (ex. the subject of taxation is treated as 1/2)
• The company’s reserve fund for retirement allowance is treated cost in taxation under required condition.

Ａ.　　It is a main employment opportunity at new graduating period: April, but there are many irregular hiring times depend on generalization of job changing. And there are examples using temporary staff agency. In actually hiring it is better go to public labor agency and employment agency.

One stop center for foreign companies of Shizuoka prefecture introduce specialists experienced and human resources in Shizuoka.

Hiring new graduate

• Japanese education agency adopt education period from April to next March for a year so generally the start of the employment is first April, and the examination for hiring is out on former Spring to Autumn.
• In case hiring high school students apply job information to high schools through public employment agency.　In case hiring university students apply job information to each university’s division charged in careers section directly, or in recently each university student will apply to the company directly.
• If the company has relation with the university, they may contact the teacher.
  Generally flow of hiring is ①visit company, ②interview・ examination etc.

Hiring experienced person

• In case of hiring experienced person it is possible to hire any time.
• Generally it will be used job advertisement of newspaper and magazine and offering public employment agency. In recently the case of offering private employment agency is increasing.
• There two types intermediation of employment
  <General introducing>
  Depend on the both offers the agencies making the match of company and person
  <Executive search>
  Depend on company’s need the agency recruit suitable person

• The fee for hiring is depend on success (contingent fee), it will cost 20-30% of wages of employee planned.

Dispatched worker and part-time worker

• There are cases using the private temporary agency.
• Those cases the company contract private agency for hiring temporary worker and the agency will make contract with the worker each time. There many needs especially these works “OA machine operation” ”filing” “creating papers” “accounting”
• If in the case of easy work it is used part time worker hiring through advertisement of newspaper etc. in the case of special work it is used temporary agency.
• The laws of labor protection are adopted for temporary and part time workers.

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.

（％）

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