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Dec 24, 2025 19:32 (JST)
Tokyo, Dec. 24 (Jiji Press)–This year’s winter bonuses at large companies in Japan averaged 1,004,841 yen, topping 1 million yen for the first time since comparable data became available in 1981, a survey showed Wednesday.
The average rose 8.57 pct from a year before, up for the fourth consecutive year, according to the survey conducted by the Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren.
The pace of increase was the second-fastest on record, after 8.92 pct in 2022. The previous record high was 951,411 yen, marked in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.
The latest results reflected “robust earnings mainly in the manufacturing industry,” a Keidanren official said.
The average “hit a record high, as it did in the summer,” the official also said. “We confirmed that strong momentum for wage hikes has taken root.”
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