Government Survey Finds 34.8% of Japan Firms Provide Work Options to Age 70

Overview

• Japan’s health and labor ministry released its 2025 survey showing a 2.9-point rise to 34.8% in companies implementing measures that secure opportunities to work until age 70.
• Measures that guarantee employment up to age 65 remain near universal at 99.9%, unchanged from the prior year.
• For the age-70 goal, the most common approach was introducing a continued-employment system at 28.3% of firms, while abolishing mandatory retirement stood at 3.9% and raising the retirement age at 2.5%.
• Adoption of age-70 measures reached 35.2% among small and medium-sized firms and 29.5% among large companies.
• The findings, based on reports from 237,739 employers as of June 1, 2025, come with a pledge that prefectural labor bureaus and Hello Work will continue providing guidance to firms yet to implement the measures.