Japan's minimum wage is 798 JPY ($6.52) per hour, lower than many other advanced countries, including the United States, and among the lowest relative to the average wage (see chart). For a country ...

Japan will raise its minimum hourly wage by a record 6.3% to ¥1,121 ($7.56), reinforcing the nation’s wage-price cycle and supporting the case for the Bank of Japan to keep hiking rates. Prefectures ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s administration has set a target of raising the average minimum wage by 42% to ¥1,500 per hour. (AP pic) A Japanese labour ministry panel plans to recommend an ...

(Bloomberg) — Japan will raise its minimum hourly wage by a record 6.3% to ¥1,121 ($7.56), reinforcing the nation’s wage-price cycle and supporting the case for the Bank of Japan to keep hiking rates.