Independent insights into income, wages, population, household finances, and regional trends across Japan, based on publicly available statistics.
A wage ranking for companies with 10–99 employees across the seven Kanto prefectures. For people considering a regional job or career change, this article compares actual published wage levels by prefecture.
A comparison of wages at small companies with 10–99 employees in Ibaraki, Tochigi, and Gunma. This article looks at which northern Kanto prefecture maintains the strongest small-company wages despite the region's manufacturing-heavy economy.
Using 2023 data, this article analyzes wages in Chiba by age and company size, focusing on the gap between large and small companies that becomes especially pronounced in the 40s and 50s.
Using 2023 data, this article examines wages in Saitama by age and company size. It looks at the pay structure in a Tokyo commuter prefecture where small and midsize companies support a large share of local employment.
Using 2023 data, this article compares wages by age at large, midsize, and small companies in Tokyo and shows how the company-size gap grows over a career.
A four-year look at wage trends for men and women in Tokyo. This article examines whether the gender gap improved through the COVID-19 period and recent wage increases, with some comparison to Kanagawa.
A four-year time-series look at the gender wage ratio in Kanagawa. Using data from 2020 through 2023, spanning the COVID-19 period, this article examines whether the gap narrowed or widened.
A comparison of men's and women's wages for ages 20–29 across the seven Kanto prefectures. Using 2023 data, this article examines whether the gender gap that concerns job seekers is already present at the start of a career.
A ranking of women's wages as a share of men's across the seven Kanto prefectures. Using 2023 data, this article compares the areas with the smallest and largest gaps and examines the figures behind them.
An age-by-age look at the gender wage gap in Tokyo, Japan's largest economic center. The gap is small in the 20s but widens rapidly from the 30s onward, as the 2023 figures show.
This article compares wages for workers aged 40–59 across Kanto's seven prefectures. Tokyo peaks at ¥490,400 for ages 55–59, while Gunma is ¥378,000. The analysis looks at why relatively small regional gaps among younger workers become much larger later in a career.
This article compares 2020 and 2023 Basic Survey on Wage Structure data across Kanto's seven prefectures. Tochigi records the largest increase at ¥40,500 (+12.9%), while Tokyo is nearly flat at +¥700 (+0.2%). The figures show a narrowing regional gap, but they are not a measure of individual pay raises.