---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 16:56:59 -0500 From: Bob Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Japan to create 770,000 jobs http://www.thestar.ca/thestar/editorial/updates/intlnews/9903060_JAPAN-CREAT I.html Mar 05, 12:12 est • Canadian Japan plans to create 770,000 jobs in two News years International TOKYO (AP) - Trying to alleviate record News high joblessness, Japan's cabinet endorsed • Business a plan today to create 770,000 jobs in News areas ranging from multimedia to care for • Sports News the elderly. The government hopes to see new jobs added [Image] in the country's four most promising areas - health and welfare, information and telecommunications, housing and tourism - Today's in which jobs are most likely generated, Issue said a spokesman at the Prime Minister's Back Issues Office. Japan is fighting the effects of its worst [Image] recession since the end of the Second [Webfinder] World War. [Image] On Tuesday, the government announced that [Image] Japan's unemployment rate for January [Navigation] remained at a record high 4.4 per cent for the third month in a row. [Image] Under the plan approved Tuesday, about 100,000 jobs would be created in the health and welfare field in fiscal 1999, beginning April 1, through a series of measures to be implemented using the fiscal 1999 budget. The plan calls for an increase in the number of home helpers and promotion of the development of welfare facilities for the elderly. The government also plans to seek ways to help private companies enter the nursing care business and improve child care services. The government also hopes to generate 180,000 other jobs in the information and telecommunications industry in fiscal 1999 and fiscal 2000 by expanding Internet and other multimedia businesses and easing industry regulations. About 400,000 jobs would be created in the housing field through a series of measures to provide incentives to build new homes, the plan said. Some 90,000 other jobs would be created in tourism through deregulation in the aviation industry. Contents copyright © 1996-1999, The Toronto Star. ............................................. Bob Olsen, Toronto [EMAIL PROTECTED] ............................................. -- For MAI-not (un)subscription information, posting guidelines and links to other MAI sites please see http://mai.flora.org/
