TOKYO -- Japan's economic reopening has driven restaurants offering new part-time hires the most generous wages on record, as the latest industry figures show.
Part-time food service workers in the Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya areas earned an average of 1,050 yen ($9.21) an hour in October, staffing group Recruit Holdings reported Monday. The number is up 2.4% from a year earlier, besting the pre-COVID high recorded in November 2019.
