The latest statistics from the Japanese government suggest that the country's economy is benefiting from healthy levels of exports. Concerns, however, surfaced after the unemployment rate rose in September for the second month running, but this was after it had fallen to a nine-year low (3.6%) in July. It now stands at 3.8%. It's interesting to look more closely at these figures. The job-losses came in the small and medium enterprise sector (companies employing 500 people or fewer), which shed 550,000 positions in September. But large Japanese companies, those with 500 employees or more, created more than half a million new jobs (510,000) in the same month.
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