Government’s minimum wage increase target “Efforts to achieve sooner” Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Takemi. In order to achieve sustainable wage increases that outpace inflation, the government has set a goal of raising the national minimum wage, which exceeded 1,000 yen per hour on average nationwide last year, to 1,500 yen by the mid-2030s.
The trend of wage increases should spread, taking into account the trend of the spring labor unions, Takemi said.