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The Japanese Government
understands it is important that the older workers are able to continue working
as part of workforce making most of knowledge and experience they acquired over
a long time to maintain the socioeconomic vitality in Japan, while the working
population is expected to decrease from now on; accompanied by the rapid pace
of population aging and the declining birthrate.
For that purpose, we revised
the Law Concerning Stabilization of Employment of Older Persons in 2004 and
2006 to maintain an environment in which older people can continue working as
long as they want and have abilities until the commencement of the annuity provision
for older persons.
In addition to the obligation
of the employer entities to introduce measures to ensure elderly employment
up to 65 years old to allow workers to ensure stable employment, the revision
stipulates that measures to promote the reemployment of older people be implemented.
The main concrete measures are as follows...
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