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Age Discrimination Is Sapping Japan's Work Force |
| Section: CULTURE / PATTERNS |
| Author: Takehiko Kambayashi |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2006 |
| Size: 523 Words, 3,332 Characters |
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After losing his full-time job at a shipbuilding company in the early nineties, Hoji Fujita never got a second chance. Fujita took one part-time job after another to survive, but the older he became, the fewer opportunities he had, so he has had to live on the street since 1996.
"It can't be helped," he said with a vacant stare from the corner of an underground passage in Ikebukuro Station, where he often sle...
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...ed the test last year.
Ichikawa has had to deal with more specialized and technical matters, said Hiroshi Hagiwara, a personnel manager at City Hall.
"So we thought we should make the pool of job candidates bigger. We believed there were capable people out there looking for a job, since we are aware of the increasing mobility of employment."
Copyright © 2005 The Washington Times, LLC.
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