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Japan job market: who is hiring now

How many jobs are open in Japan, how many were posted this week, and what kinds of jobs they are. Counted from the public careers pages of the 9,502 companies we follow, updated every hour.

Last updated

Open jobs1,758
Posted in the last 7 days96
Posted in the last 30 days479

New jobs each day, last 30 days

Each bar is one day: the number of jobs first posted in Japan that day. 27% of the jobs open now were posted in the last 30 days.

15 Oct: 20 new16 Oct: 41 new17 Oct: 1 new18 Oct: 8 new19 Oct: 15 new20 Oct: 46 new21 Oct: 49 new22 Oct: 22 new23 Oct: 12 new24 Oct: 1 new25 Oct: 0 new26 Oct: 16 new27 Oct: 27 new28 Oct: 23 new29 Oct: 17 new30 Oct: 6 new31 Oct: 0 new1 Nov: 1 new2 Nov: 18 new3 Nov: 9 new4 Nov: 20 new5 Nov: 14 new6 Nov: 12 new7 Nov: 3 new8 Nov: 1 new9 Nov: 31 new10 Nov: 22 new11 Nov: 13 new12 Nov: 12 new13 Nov: 5 new
15 Oct13 Nov

What kinds of jobs are open

Grouped by job title. One job can count in more than one group, for example “Backend” and “Engineering management”.

  1. Account executive and sales196 61 new in 30 days
  2. Software engineer (general)147 36 new in 30 days
  3. Account management and renewals101 26 new in 30 days
  4. Sales engineering and presales100 31 new in 30 days
  5. Implementation and professional services81 18 new in 30 days
  6. Partnerships and business development80 19 new in 30 days
  7. Business operations and strategy66 33 new in 30 days
  8. Product manager60 24 new in 30 days
  9. AI engineering and LLMs59 13 new in 30 days
  10. Customer and technical support53 11 new in 30 days
  11. Customer success51 23 new in 30 days
  12. Marketing (general)42 11 new in 30 days

Open jobs, with how many were posted in the last 30 days.

Cities

  1. Tokyo1,308 350 new in 30 days
  2. Osaka45 13 new in 30 days
  3. Tama23 4 new in 30 days

Open jobs by city.

Job titles posted most

  1. Account Executive16
  2. Enterprise Account Executive13
  3. Engineering Manager11
  4. Customer Success Manager9
  5. Sales Engineer7
  6. Strategy & Operations6
  7. Business Unit Head6
  8. Large Enterprise Account Executive5
  9. Technical Product Manager5
  10. Software Engineer5
  11. Solutions Architect4
  12. Technical Account Manager4

Job titles posted most in the last 30 days (levels such as Senior or II removed).

Where these numbers come from

  • Source. Every hour we read the public careers pages of the companies we follow that use Greenhouse, Lever or Ashby to post jobs. A job counts as open until it is taken down from the company's page.
  • What is not included. LinkedIn, JobStreet, Indeed, recruitment agencies, and companies that use other hiring systems. These numbers are a sample of companies that hire directly, and they lean towards technology companies. They are not the whole job market.
  • Places. A job counts for Japan when its location names a city or region there. Remote jobs count only where the posting names a country.
  • Titles. Levels such as “Senior”, “Staff” or “II” are removed, so “Senior Data Engineer” and “Data Engineer” count together.

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