Japan 2025 spring wage negotiations (Shunto) wage request

With Japan’s trade unions requesting an even larger pay hike in this year’s spring wage negotiations (Shunto) than they did a year ago, we now expect the negotiations to result in a base pay hike of close to 4%.

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