TOKYO -- The jobless rate in Japan stood at 3.0% in August compared with 2.9% in July, data from the Statistics Bureau showed on Wednesday, amid a fragile economic recovery following the deep recession sparked by the coronavirus.
The August reading is the highest since 3.1% in May 2017, underlining a reversal of the decadelong downtrend in the unemployment rate under former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic growth program, known as Abenomics.
