On January 24th, companies' joint information session "Welfare Job Support Fair" was held in Takamatsu, Kagawa targeting to recruit health care and welfare field students and workers. 75 employer offered 1,060 jobs, however 110 people attended the session.
The number of job offers at the prefecture's Social Welfare Human Resource Center has increased by 70 percent from 2009 while the number of applicants has increased only 10 percent in the same term.
介護の人手不足深刻 １０６０人募集も来場１１０人…香川 ―yomiDr./ヨミドクター
http://www.yomidr.yomiuri.co.jp/page.jsp?id=71705
Job cuts of foreign banks in Japan in 2011
Over 2.12M people on welfare
Japan 101st on WEF "The Global Gender Gap Report"
Annual income of Japanese keeps dropping
