Awwal 26, 1432, March 01, 2011, SPA -- Japan's unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.9 per cent in January, the government said Tuesday. The number of unemployed decreased by 140,000 from a year earlier to 3.09 million in January, while the number of job holders dropped by 90,000 to 62.04 million, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications said. The unemployment rate fell below 5 per cent in December for the first time in 10 months, according to a report of the German Press Agency "DPA".
