The government endorsed last month a plan to secure 300,000 permanent jobs for those in their mid-30s to mid-40s who fell victim to an "employment ice age" when they entered the job market, but some of them have cast doubt on its effectiveness and urged companies to change their hiring practices.The plight of job seekers who struggled to find stable employment from the collapse of Japan's economic bubble in the early 1990s through the early 2000s mainly stems from major Japanese firms' practice of hiring new university graduates en masse, with economic conditions at the time greatly affecti…READ FULL ARTICLE
