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FOCUS: Voluntary retirements tantamount to forced dismissals.

Publication: Japan Weekly Monitor
Publication Date: 10-DEC-01
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
TOKYO, Dec. 6 Kyodo

(EDS: THIS IS THE FIRST OF FIVE NEWS FOCUS STORIES ON SERIOUS UNEMPLOYMENT) A painful, wintry mood is prevailing among salaried workers amid the continued recession, with merciless personnel reductions and dismissals pushing the unemployment rate up to a postwar high of 5.4% in October.

In early August, a letter was delivered to the home of Kiichi Nagasawa (pseudonym), 53, from his company while he was at work. His wife, opening the letter, was astonished to read, ''We would like all of you...

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