From a Financial Times report.
The growing wave of spring strikes called hy Japanese unions to back demands for wage increag,eand higher minimum wages reached a new peak of intensity on March 26th when private railway and tus workers walked off their jobs for four hours, affecting nearly 9 million commters throughout Japane Participating in the strikes were workers belonging to 157 unions in private railway companies which carry the builk of Japan's commiter traffic. The Uniamiswhich are affiliated to the General Federation of Private Railway workers! Unions are demanding an average monthly wage increase of £5 and a minimum’ wage of £14 per month (sic), The railway strikers were joined by gome 30,000 taxi drivers and 60,000 workers in the synthetic chemical industry,