Coalition gathers to create environment for high wage increases to spread to small and medium-sized enterprises. Average wage increase rate of the approximately 2,600 companies that responded by the 2nd of this month was 5.24%, the highest level of over 5% in 33 years.

Chairman Yoshino said, it is necessary to promote the transfer of labor costs to prices and work to improve wages even more than last year. Let's come together as one and fight until the end," he said.