&quot;HRog Wage Now&quot; was referenced in the Aomori Prefectural Office’s &quot;2025 Edition of the Aomori Socio-Economic White Paper: The Impact of Labor Shortages on the Socio-Economic System,&quot; published on Wednesday, April 1, 2026 (Material in Japanese only)・&quot;<a href="https://www.pref.aomori.lg.jp/soshiki/seisaku/tokei/files/2025zentai.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2025 Edition of the Aomori Socio-Economic White Paper: The Impact of Labor Shortages on the Socio-Economic System</a>&quot;

"HRog Wage Now"was referenced in the Aomori Prefectural Office’s "2025 Edition of the Aomori Socio-Economic White Paper: The Impact of Labor Shortages on the Socio-Economic System."

&quot;HRog Wage Now&quot; was referenced in the Cabinet Office&apos;s &quot;Materials for the Ministerial Council on the Monthly Economic Report (February 25, 2026),&quot; published on Monday, February 25, 2026 (Material in Japanese only)・&quot;<a href="https://www5.cao.go.jp/keizai3/getsurei/2026/02kaigi.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Materials for the Ministerial Council on the Monthly Economic Report (February 25, 2026)</a>&quot;

"HRog Wage Now" was referenced in the Cabinet Office’s materials for the "Ministerial Council on the Monthly Economic Report(February 25, 2026)".

&quot;HRog Wage Now&quot; was referenced in the Cabinet Office&apos;s &quot;Materials for the Ministerial Council on the Monthly Economic Report (January 22, 2026),&quot; published on Monday, January 22, 2026 (Material in Japanese only)・&quot;<a href="https://www5.cao.go.jp/keizai3/getsurei/2026/01kaigi.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Materials for the Ministerial Council on the Monthly Economic Report (January 22, 2026)</a>&quot;

"HRog Wage Now" was referenced in the Cabinet Office’s materials for the "Ministerial Council on the Monthly Economic Report(January 22, 2026)".

&quot;HRog Wage Now&quot; was referenced in the Cabinet Office&apos;s &quot;Materials for the Ministerial Council on the Monthly Economic Report (December 19, 2025),&quot; published on Monday, December 19, 2025 (Material in Japanese only)・&quot;<a href="https://www5.cao.go.jp/keizai3/getsurei/2025/12kaigi.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Materials for the Ministerial Council on the Monthly Economic Report (December 19, 2025)</a>&quot;

"HRog Wage Now" was referenced in the Cabinet Office’s materials for the "Ministerial Council on the Monthly Economic Report(December 19, 2025)".

&quot;HRog Wage Now&quot; was referenced in the Cabinet Office&apos;s &quot;Materials for the Ministerial Council on the Monthly Economic Report (November 26, 2025),&quot; published on Monday, November 26, 2025 (Material in Japanese only)・ &quot;<a href="https://www5.cao.go.jp/keizai3/getsurei/2025/11kaigi.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Materials for the Ministerial Council on the Monthly Economic Report (November 26, 2025)</a>&quot;

"HRog Wage Now" was referenced in the Cabinet Office’s materials for the "Ministerial Council on the Monthly Economic Report(November 26, 2025)".

&quot;HRog Wage Now&quot; was utilized in Supplementary Material (2) of the Ministry of Finance&apos;s document &quot;Suggestions on the Formulation for FY 2026 Budget&quot; published on Wednesday, November 5, 2025. &quot;HRog Wage Now&quot; is employed as one of the indicators for capturing wage trends in the section &quot;Trends in Prices and Wages.&quot; 　・&quot;<a href="https://www.mof.go.jp/about_mof/councils/fiscal_system_council/sub-of_fiscal_system/report/zaiseia20251202/04.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Suggestions on the Formulation for FY 2026 Budget - Supplementary Material (2)</a>&quot; (Japanese only)

"HRog Wage Now" Utilized in the Ministry of Finance's document "Suggestions on the Formulation for FY 2026 Budget"

&quot;HRog Wage Now&quot; was referenced in the Cabinet Office&apos;s &quot;Materials for the Ministerial Council on the Monthly Economic Report (October 29, 2025),&quot; published on Monday, October 29, 2025 (Material in Japanese only)・&quot;<a href="https://www5.cao.go.jp/keizai3/getsurei/2025/10kaigi.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Materials for the Ministerial Council on the Monthly Economic Report (October 29, 2025)</a>&quot;

"HRog Wage Now" was referenced in the Cabinet Office’s materials for the "Ministerial Council on the Monthly Economic Report(October 29, 2025)".

&quot;HRog Wage Now&quot; was referenced in the Cabinet Office&apos;s &quot;Materials for the Ministerial Council on the Monthly Economic Report (September 29, 2025),&quot; published on Monday, September 29, 2025 (Material in Japanese only)・&quot;<a href="https://www5.cao.go.jp/keizai3/getsurei/2025/09kaigi.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Materials for the Ministerial Council on the Monthly Economic Report (September 29, 2025)</a>&quot;

"HRog Wage Now" was referenced in the Cabinet Office’s materials for the "Ministerial Council on the Monthly Economic Report(September 29, 2025)".

In the &quot;Custom Data Export&quot; tab, it is now possible to specify a period.<figure><img src="https://images.microcms-assets.io/assets/441ec210719b44348f370efc371c0c91/f11a87bd5073417f9320afb2cd36c6cc/20250210_eng.png" alt="" width="2364" height="1176"></figure>

Update on Data Export Feature

Cross-sell analysis for full-time employees and annual wage is now available on &quot;HRog Wage Now&quot;. The available attribute combinations are &quot;Company Type Category &amp; Prefecture&quot;, &quot;Occupation Category &amp; Company Type Category&quot;, &quot;Sector Category &amp; Prefecture&quot;, and &quot;Sector Category &amp; Prefecture&quot;. For more details, please check &quot;Data Availability&quot; after logging in. For more information about &quot;HRog Wage Now&quot;, please visit:<a href="https://hrogwagenow.com/">https://hrogwagenow.com/</a> End

Cross-Sell Analysis for Full-Time Employees and Annual Wage Now Available on "HRog Wage Now"

&quot;HRog Wage Now&quot; was utilized in the report &quot;MRI Daily Economic Points&quot; published by Mitsubishi Research Institute on Wednesday, July 10, 2024. In the report, wage index of small enterprises with 5 to 29 employees were compared with the Monthly Labour Survey. The full report (Japanese only) can be viewed on the Mitsubishi Research Institute&apos;s website. <a href="https://www.mri.co.jp/knowledge/insight/dep/2024/i5inlu000000ftjq-att/dep20240710.pdf">https://www.mri.co.jp/knowledge/insight/dep/2024/i5inlu000000ftjq-att/dep20240710.pdf</a>

"HRog Wage Now" Utilized in Mitsubishi Research Institute's "MRI Daily Economic Points"

On Wednesday, July 10, 2024, &quot;HRog Wage Now&quot; was utilized in the distribution materials of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare&apos;s &quot;Subcommittee on Guidelines for the Central Minimum Wage Council for FY 2024 (2nd Meeting).&quot;The materials compare the hourly wages of part-time workers (Monthly Labour Survey), recruitment wages (HRog Wage Now), and minimum wages by prefecture.The materials can be downloaded <a href="https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/11201250/001273150.pdf">here</a> (Japanese only)

"HRog Wage Now" Utilized in the Distribution Materials of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's "Subcommittee on Guidelines for the Central Minimum Wage Council for FY 2024 (2nd Meeting)"

&quot;HRog Wage Now&quot; is used in the report titled &quot;Tectonic shifts in prices and wages occurring in the tourism industry&quot; by Masato Koike of SOMPO Institute Plus.You can view the report on the SOMPO Institute Plus&apos;s website, so please take a look.<a href="https://www.sompo-ri.co.jp/2024/05/14/12456/">https://www.sompo-ri.co.jp/2024/05/14/12456/</a>

“HRog Wage Now” was used at Japanese think tank

The report by Hiroshi Miyazaki , Jun Takeda and Moe Nakahama makes use of &quot;HRog Wage Now.&quot;You can view the report on the Itochu Research Institute&apos;s website, so please take a look.<a href="https://www.itochu-research.com/ja/report/2024/2583/">https://www.itochu-research.com/ja/report/2024/2583/</a>

"Japan Economic Information" by Itochu Research Institute, "HRog Wage Now" has been utilized.

&quot;HRog Wage Now&quot; is used in the report titled &quot;The Picture of Employment and Wages Shown by Alternative Data&quot; by Masato Koike and Mr. Saku Kameda of SOMPO Institute Plus.<a href="https://www.sompo-ri.co.jp/2024/04/25/12338/">https://www.sompo-ri.co.jp/2024/04/25/12338/</a>

Hiromasa Iwamoto of SC-Abeam Automotive Consulting has published a report covering the Japanese Wage Trends in the Manufacturing industry with data from HRog Wage Now.You can view the report on SC-Abeam Automotive Consulting&apos;s website from the following URL (Japanese-only). <a href="https://www.sc-abeam.com/and_mobility/article/20240405-01/">https://www.sc-abeam.com/and_mobility/article/20240405-01/</a>

Use case analysis of HRogWageNow for the Japanese Manufacturing Sector

The report by Jun Takeda and Moe Nakahama makes use of &quot;HRog Wage Now.&quot;You can view the report on the Itochu Research Institute&apos;s website, so please take a look. <a href="https://www.itochu-research.com/ja/report/2024/2565/">https://www.itochu-research.com/ja/report/2024/2565/</a>

&quot;Hrog Wage Now&quot; was quoted by Takuya Hoshino, economist at Dai-ichi Life Research Institute. You can see the report on the website of Dai-ichi Life Research Institute from the link below (the report is in Japanese). <a href="https://www.dlri.co.jp/report/macro/327261.html">https://www.dlri.co.jp/report/macro/327261.html</a>

 "Hrog Wage Now" was featured in a report by Takuya Hoshino, chief economist at Dai-ichi Life Research Institute.

HRogWageNow has been delivering the weekly index on a 2 week lag every Monday and in the event of a public holiday or a company holiday we have delivered the data the next business day. To enable faster delivery of our data, we will be delivering the data every Monday regardless of whether the day falls on a public holiday or company holiday. Our monthly index will be delivered on the second Monday of the month. The updated schedule can be checked from <a href="https://hrogwagenow.com/en/schedule/">here</a>. This policy change will be first applied for the delivery on April 29th (Showa Day) which was initially scheduled for the following business day on April 30th.

Data Delivery Day Change for Index

Until now, &quot;HRog Wage Now&quot; has provided indices exclusively for full-time jobs. However, starting from March 8, 2024, we are expanding our offerings to include the Wage Index and Job Postings Index for part-time jobs as well.For these newly introduced &quot;Part-time&quot; indices, we offer two distinct series: one series utilizes data from both private job posting sites (i.e., those not owned by the government) and the government-operated &quot;Hello Work Internet Service&quot; (hereinafter referred to as &quot;Hello Work&quot;), while the other series exclusively relies on private job posting sites as its source data. This approach is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the labor market, capturing aspects that may be overlooked in official statistics.Below are the change details.<h3 id="h61e09c1572">Data</h3>- Addition of &quot;Employment Type&quot; column:Added a column to indicate whether the job posting is for &quot;Part-time&quot; (new series) or &quot;Full-time&quot;- Addition of &quot;Job Posting Publisher&quot; column:Added a column to specify if the source data includes both private job posting sites and &quot;Hello Work,&quot; labeled as &quot;Public &amp; Private&quot; in the dataset, or if it includes only private job posting sites, labeled as &quot;Private Only.&quot;NOTE: The &quot;Part-time&quot; indices have both “Public &amp; Private” &amp; “Private Only” as options for the “Job Posting Publisher” column, while the existing “Full-time” indices are currently limited to the “Public &amp; Private” option for the column- Addition of &quot;Hourly Wage&quot; as a new data point to &quot;Wage Type&quot; column for &quot;Part-time&quot; indices<h3 id="h773fb72d72">Dashboard</h3>- Addition of &quot;Part-time&quot; charts to the &quot;Time Series View&quot; tabAdded charts to visualize two key indicators of the newly added &quot;Part-time&quot; indices to the &quot;Time Series View&quot; tab. The top right chart visualizes the Wage Index (actual amounts) over time, and the bottom right chart visualizes the Job Postings Index (level) over time.<figure><img src="https://images.microcms-assets.io/assets/441ec210719b44348f370efc371c0c91/e868bd60128f4ed1bb79f464204262de/time-series-en.png" alt="" width="2000" height="836"></figure>- Addition of &quot;Data Availability&quot; tabAdded a &quot;Data Availability&quot; tab, making it easy for users to see the availability of data. This new feature allows you to check for data availability across various combinations of attributes, such as index types with their frequencies, and prefectures paired with occupation categories.<figure><img src="https://images.microcms-assets.io/assets/441ec210719b44348f370efc371c0c91/36d9656d67ad42e0b2619d37a6662947/data-availability-en.png" alt="" width="2000" height="1124"></figure>- Addition of &quot;Employment Type&quot; and &quot;Job Posting Publisher&quot; columns to the &quot;Custom Data Export&quot; tabAdded filters for the new &quot;Employment Type&quot; and &quot;Job Posting Publisher&quot;.<figure><img src="https://images.microcms-assets.io/assets/441ec210719b44348f370efc371c0c91/c0cc4c3e4dc5424cb3604effb9ec995d/custom-data-export-en.png" alt="" width="2000" height="818"></figure>

 Addition of "Part-time" Indices

Today&apos;s Nikkei evening edition, page 2, &quot;Focus,&quot; featured an interview with Ichihashi of Nowcast BizDev regarding the development of HRog Wage Now. Yukiko Ichihashi Developing alternative data showing wage trends to help make policy decisions with &quot;speed&quot; and &quot;accuracy.&quot; (Japanese only)<a href="https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGKKZO78484070V10C24A2EAC000/">https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGKKZO78484070V10C24A2EAC000/</a>

An interview about the development of HRog Wage Now was published in the Nikkei

Nowcast&apos;s &quot;HRog Wage Now&quot; was quoted in the Nikkei Electronic Edition on February 4 and today&apos;s Nikkei Morning Edition on February 5.▼ 2/4 Nikkei e-edition<a href="https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUA119LD0R11C23A2000000/">https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUA119LD0R11C23A2000000/</a>2/5 Nikkei Morning Edition<a href="https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGKKZO78226030U4A200C2NN1000/">https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGKKZO78226030U4A200C2NN1000/</a>▼2/5 Nagara Nikkei 1:55～<a href="https://omny.fm/shows/program-0a5f8283-e43d-4723-9f17-b3d079522388/2-5-gx-1-6-ev">https://omny.fm/shows/program-0a5f8283-e43d-4723-9f17-b3d079522388/2-5-gx-1-6-ev</a>

HRog Wage Now was quoted in the Nikkei

Weekly updates of &quot;HRog Wages Now&quot; are now available.Please see below for the future distribution schedule.<a href="https://hrogwagenow.com/en/schedule/">https://hrogwagenow.com/en/schedule/</a>

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