* * * * * * * * * T E R R I E 'S T A K E * * * * * * *<br>A weekly roundup of news & information from Terrie Lloyd.<br>(<a href="http://www.terrie.com">http://www.terrie.com</a>)<br><br>General Edition Sunday, February 13, 2011, Issue No. 601<br>
<br>+++ INDEX<br><br>- What's New -- Skilled jobs recovery?<br>- Short Takes -- Non-lauryl sulfate shampoo<br>- News -- JAXA fishing net to round up space junk<br>- Candidate Roundup/Vacancies<br>- Upcoming Events<br>
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<br>There was a rally in Tokyo this last week for over 1,500 <br>unemployed college kids and other youths who have not <br>yet found jobs. Anywhere else this would have been a <br>demonstration against government policies, complete with <br>
banners and confrontations, however by all accounts the <br>gathering was more of a pep rally than anything else and<br>people were punching fists in the air than at the <br>authorities. <br><br>Of course the attendees have every right to be concerned <br>
about their futures, given that only 70% of college <br>graduates had found jobs by December 1st, and less than <br>half of junior college students have done so. Some Japanese<br>firms may be making record profits on overseas earnings, <br>
but most of them are still very much stuck in a difficult <br>recession, and between the two extremes not many are <br>hiring staff. Indeed, amongst corporate senior managers <br>there is a continuing fear that the US economy will take <br>
another major tumble later this year, and that instead of <br>bulking up on people, cash piles are needed instead, to <br>ride out the coming rough times and to do M&As outside<br>the country.<br><br>What the hiring stats also tell us is that not only are <br>
jobs overall scarce but for lesser skilled kids, they are <br>in particularly short supply. This is a direct result of both<br>manufacturing moving off-shore and the fact that so many <br>domestic services companies are in serious financial <br>
trouble. If you don't have an engineering or medical <br>degree, or strong language and sales/marketing skills, then<br>the changing job market offers little promise for the <br>future and this year's graduates stand to become a lost<br>
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------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>[...Article continues]<br><br>The government's answer to chronic youth unemployment is to<br>offer companies JPY100,000 per month for each new graduate <br>
they employ on a three-month fixed term contract (a type of<br>contract that allows companies to let the person go after <br>the three month period), then a further JPY500,000 if they <br>convert the employee to a regular full-timer. <br>
<br>While for companies that are going to be hiring new people <br>anyway this is a nice perk, for companies that are <br>borderline in profits already, and that is most of them at <br>present, then a mere JPY800,000 is not going to be a <br>
serious incentive to bring someone new in. In fact, on a <br>salary of JPY250,000, the costs borne by the company for <br>social insurance for the new person would eat up the value <br>of the subsidy in just 18 months. So no one is going to get<br>
rich hiring people they don't need.<br><br>Instead, the government needs to focus on a longer term and<br>more appropriate strategy, that being the improvement of <br>skills of employees, so that Japan can compete globally and<br>
so that companies who are in good shape, mostly those with <br>technology and IT capabilities, can find the people that <br>they need. As we watch the jobs market, particularly the <br>online jobs sites, it is quite clear that there are plenty <br>
of jobs available, but mostly for those people with either <br>technical abilities or language skills.<br><br>There is plenty of anecdotal evidence around that there is <br>indeed a buoyant market reemerging for skilled workers. A <br>
recent Robert Walters jobs and salaries survey had this to <br>say about their quite substantial Japan recruiting practice:<br><br>"We saw a steady increase in recruitment activity during <br>2010 as many Japan-based firms lifted hiring freezes put in<br>
place during the previous 12 months. While there was a <br>clear improvement in market conditions, employers remain <br>cautiously optimistic about the rate and sustainability of <br>market recovery." <br><br>The report goes on to say that financial services and IT <br>
are recovering much more quickly than other sectors, with <br>Japanese companies are selectively hiring to support their <br>international business growth, as well as anticipated<br>major shifts in the technology markets, such as cloud <br>
computing and all the support functions required for this <br>IT model. It then closes with the comment that: "The <br>competition for the highest caliber professionals will <br>increase in 2011..."<br><br>Other evidence that there is a strong recovery in the <br>
recruitment of skilled people comes from the two recruiting<br>companies that are public and therefore required to share <br>their financials. Firstly, there has been a remarkable <br>recovery in the market value of JAC, a mid-sized recruiting<br>
company based in Tokyo. This firm has been in the doldrums <br>for some time, but over the last 3 months its stock has <br>roared up the charts on the basis of positive earnings <br>reported in December 2010 -- the first in three years. Indeed, <br>
since December, JAC's shares have risen from 3,000 yen to <br>more than 6,000 yen, going limit-up several times. Maybe <br>there is something else going on, a buy-out possibly? We <br>don't know, but for now we're assuming that JAC is going to <br>
report a strong first half and that this is what is driving the <br>share price.<br><br>The other company that is easy to check on is En-Japan, the<br>firm that took over Wall Street Associates several months <br>ago. Looking at their financials, they were obviously badly<br>
affected by the jobs slowdown in 2008, and in fact their <br>sales in 2009 were just half of the previous year. However,<br>on an unconsolidated basis (i.e., before accounting for <br>WSA's apparently very good numbers), FY2010 closed up, and <br>
the forecast is for a recovery in earnings in 2011. This <br>has boosted En-Japan's stock price by about 40% over the <br>last 3 months.<br><br>We are hearing from other recruiting companies that the <br>last 6-9 months have been extremely busy and that everyone <br>
is starting to make money again. Given that labor usually <br>lags the markets by 6-12 months, one might think that this <br>is simply the result of an overall recovery. However, this <br>time around, the action appears to be caused more by <br>
groundshifts in the type of employees companies are needing,<br>and it's only the skilled jobs that will recover this time around. <br>Unfortunately, skilled jobs are just a fraction of the overall jobs<br>market, so bread winners will continue to be under pressure <br>
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- Net making expertise for space junk<br>- "We didn't know we had to pay tax"<br>- IUJ gets a new way to make money<br><br><br>-> A trillion dollars of public debt<br><br>A trillion dollars doesn't sound as much as it once did, <br>
thanks to the US deficit over the last couple of years. <br>Nonetheless for Japan the government's JPY919.151trn <br>(US$1.12trn) debt mountain means that every man, woman, <br>and child now owes JPY723,622 (US$8,800) to someone in <br>
unpaid taxes -- i.e., the way that the government is likely <br>to get this money back. What's worse is that the Finance <br>Ministry reckons this total rose 1.1% in just the last four<br>months. ***Ed: As we keep saying, luckily the Japanese <br>
government owes most of this money to other Japanese, the <br>same people they are able to tax. Once they start having to<br>go ashore for funds, then you know they're in real trouble.<br>Not something that is likely to happen in the next 5 years,<br>
though, thanks to the pending rise in consumption tax.** <br>(Source: TT commentary from <a href="http://wsj.com">wsj.com</a>, Feb 10, 2011)<br><br><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110210-704337.html">http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110210-704337.html</a><br>
<br>-> Consumer sentiment "improves" -- to just mildly pessimistic<br><br>A Cabinet Office survey has found that consumers are more <br>optimistic about the economy than any time in the last <br>seven months. The Office says that consumer sentiment index<br>
rose to 41.1 in January, up from 40.1 in December. The <br>index is calibrated such that a reading of 50 means that <br>consumers are neutral about the economy. So right now, 20% <br>more people (70% in total) are still pessimistic. <br>
Apparently that's a reasonably good reading in a nation of <br>pessimists... (Source: TT commentary from <a href="http://bbc.co.uk">bbc.co.uk</a>, Feb 9,<br>2011)<br><br><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/12352595">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/12352595</a><br>
<br>-> Net making expertise for space junk<br><br>Making the weird news list for this week is Japan's JAXA <br>space agency, which apparently is working with a fishing <br>net manufacturer to make a steel wire net for collecting <br>
space junk floating in orbit around the earth. The net will<br>be several kilometers wide and after a "catch" of junk is <br>made, it will be electrified by an attached control box, <br>causing the whole mess to fall back to earth and be burned <br>
up upon re-entry. JAXA is still some years away from making<br>anything solid from the project, but needless to say, the <br>roughly 320,000 pieces of junk exceeding 1cm in diameter <br>and in orbit at the moment is causing some risks to space <br>
travelers and someone needs to clear it. Clean-tech takes <br>on a new dimension. (Source: TT commentary from <a href="http://msn.com">msn.com</a>, <br>Feb 8, 2011)<br><br><a href="http://on.msnbc.com/gnjjKX">http://on.msnbc.com/gnjjKX</a><br>
<br>-> "We didn't know we had to pay tax"<br><br>There must be some embarrassed people working over at <br>JPMorgan Securities, after it has come to light that 120 <br>former and current employees have been dunned by the Tax <br>
Office for not paying taxes on an estimated JPY700m of <br>income earned primarily through a stock option program run<br>by the company up to 2008. Many of those accused apparently<br>operated the shares received through the program in <br>
off-shore trading accounts, making it especially naughty. <br>(Source: TT commentary from <a href="http://japantimes.co.jp">japantimes.co.jp</a>, Feb 13, 2011)<br><br><a href="http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110213b4.html">http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110213b4.html</a><br>
<br>-> IUJ gets a new way to make money<br><br>Stuck out in Minami Uonuma, Niigata, a pretty but remote <br>place nonetheless, the International University of Japan <br>has its work cut out for it trying to attract students. <br>
Over the last few years it has managed to do so by offering<br>advanced education to foreigners, mainly Asians, on <br>scholarships. But again, this has been a tough way to make <br>money. So it's good to see them come up with something new.<br>
Essentially, they have so many foreigners on their campus <br>now (about 90% of students) that they are able to offer <br>summer "immersion" classes to employees of major companies,<br>who need to learn English for their jobs. Apparently the <br>
IUJ folks have been hard at work and have signed <br>"partnership" agreements with 35 major Japanese <br>corporations, including Orix, Kao, Sumitomo, Takeda <br>Pharmaceutical, Panasonic, Fast Retailing, and Mizuho. One <br>
week in such a course will be JPY700,000 per person, rather<br>steep but probably cheaper than sending those same folks <br>abroad for a similar period. (Source: TT commentary from <br><a href="http://e.nikkei.com">e.nikkei.com</a>, Feb 12, 2011)<br>
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+++ CORRECTIONS/FEEDBACK<br><br>In this section we run comments and corrections submitted<br>by readers. We encourage you to spot our mistakes and<br>amplify our points, by email, to <a href="mailto:editors@terrie.com">editors@terrie.com</a>.<br>
<br>*** In Terrie's Take 600 we discussed the link between <br>smart meters and looming unemployment for the tens of <br>thousands of meter readers that utilities hire. <br><br>=> Reader Responds: <br><br>On Smart Meter’s and unemployment – it occurs to me that <br>
this is probably considered fine by a certain school of <br>thought concerning the inverting demographic triangle. OK, <br>maybe it’s a little out of sync with the big retirement <br>bulge not quite begun yet, however you can imagine the “Men<br>
in Grey” considering as this being a 30K reduction in <br>future needs to import cheap foreign labor whose other <br>utilization can be replaced from the newly unemployed <br>housewife seeking part time work pool..... <br>
<br>Another key reduction will be in the number of old guys on <br>the highway toll booths (post-ETC, they are gradually going<br>the same way as those who used to man the railway ticket <br>gates, and will phase out to only a few needed per toll <br>
area). Of course when the real crunch comes a reduction in <br>the orange light-saber management professionals, and those <br>in allied trades can also be called upon to make the <br>numbers balance!<br><br>On Ishihara – I dunno – that’s nothing particularly <br>
outrageous in what he said, by his standards – he has said <br>far worse on occasion..... I can bear personal witness <br>to having heard him say worse myself some years ago.<br><br>***********************************************************<br>
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