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Japan's March jobless rate hits 1-year high of 2.5% amid pandemic
Japan's unemployment rate rose to 2.5 percent in March, the highest it has been in one year, in yet another sign of the impact the coronavirus pandemic is having on Japan's faltering economy, government data showed Tuesday. The rate, compared with 2.4 percent in February, increased for the second straight month. The seasonally adjusted number of unemployed in March increased 60,000, or 3.6 percent, from the previous month to 1.72 million, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. Among them, 710,000 people voluntarily left their jobs, down 20,000 from a month earlier. There were 430,000 new ... (full story)