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Japan's Vanishing Self-Employed
Fewer than 1 in 10 working Japanese is self-employed, and the share keeps falling. Lifetime-employment norms and the pull of corporate stability leave little room for going solo.
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Japan's self-employed are vanishing. Lifetime-employment norms and corporate prestige pull talent toward salaried jobs; just 3% of workers call freelancing their main gig.
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- OfficialStatistics Bureau of Japan — Labour Force Survey2024
- Intl. OrgOECD — Self-employment rate (indicator)2023