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In Japan
NEETs are now being observed to exist in Japan as revealed through employment statistics collected by the
Japanese government. The growth in the size of the population classified as NEET (whose estimated size
rose from 480,000 in September 2002 to 520,000 in September 2003, according to the Japan Ministry of Health
and Labor) has been viewed with some concern by Japanese politicians, because of its potential for impact upon
the Japanese economy. Other surveys done by the Japanese government in 2002 present a much larger figure
of 850,000 people who can be classified as NEET in the Japanese population, and of those individuals, those in
the twenty-five to thirty-four old age cohort comprised 60% of that total.
In Japan, NEETs are those who have rejected the accepted social
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