Unemployment Rates in Japan

As many other countries, unemployment rates in Japan have been raising this year. Many part-time works have already lost jobs since October in 2008. This year more full-time workers may lose jobs!

2009 Japan
Jan. 4.1%
Feb. 4.4%
Mar. 4.8%
Apr. 5.0%
May. 5.2%

The quarterly earnings of American companies have been released this month. So far, the most of them have showed satisfactory results. On the other hand, unemployment rates in the U.S. have been going up as Japan.

2009 the U.S.
Jan. 7.6%
Feb. 8.1%
Mar. 8.5%
Apr. 8.9%
May. 9.4%
June 9.5%

At this point economy seems to be recovering by the way that companies cut employment fees. I don't think that it is just the first stage of recovery.