Japanese Graduates Face Unemployment

from Hsinhua §q,000 out of the 170,000 university gracuates in Japan will be jobless _by next spring, as the threat of unemployment looms larger and larger over the country. This estimate, widely held to be underestimate, was given by the Japanese Labour Ministry. The newspaper, Asahi Shimbun, has predicted that the problem of providing jobs for the fresh university graduates next spring should be a knotty one, as the great majority of the big enterprises have informed the universities that they will take none of their graduates next spring. Others have decided to hire only two-thirds of half of the number they employed last springs : Many of the university students are spending much of their time looking for jobs instead of studying. It was reported that one student of Chuo University had sat in examinations for new employees given by three differ~ ent companies, and failed each time owing to keen competition. He then went home to Miyazaki prefecture and sat in the examination for new middle school teachers. To his amazement and anger, he found that there were 150 job-seekers contesting the five vacancies.