1st female chief for National Personnel Authority

1st female chief for National Personnel Authority

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in May 2013 shows Nahomi Ichimiya, a commissioner of the National Personnel Authority. The government has decided to promote Ichimiya as the first woman to head the nation's personnel agency, government sources said March 8, 2014.

Gov't workers' wages to be cut

Gov't workers' wages to be cut

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (R) receives an advisory from Takeshi Erikawa, president of the National Personnel Authority, on wages for central government workers at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2011. The personnel board proposed a 0.23% cut in monthly salaries for government workers in fiscal 2011 for the third straight yearly decline, leading to a 15,000 yen cut in their average annual salaries to 6.37 million yen.

Gov't to transfer personnel functions to new Cabinet bureau

Gov't to transfer personnel functions to new Cabinet bureau

TOKYO, Japan - Masahito Tani, president of the National Personnel Authority, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Feb. 3 after the government decided to transfer the personnel functions of some administrative entities to a new Cabinet Secretariat office to be set up in April 2010.

Cabinet OKs freeze in national civil service pay scale

Cabinet OKs freeze in national civil service pay scale

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki (2nd from L) and other Cabinet members hold a meeting on Oct. 17 to endorse the National Personnel Authority's recommendation of maintaining the current levels of basic monthly pay and bonuses for national government workers in the current fiscal year that started April 1.

Panel proposes record wage cuts for gov't employees

Panel proposes record wage cuts for gov't employees

TOKYO, Japan - Tadayoshi Nakajima (L), president of the National Personnel Authority (NPA), hands NPA recommendations to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at the prime minister's office on Aug. 8. The authority proposed record wage cuts for central government employees to make the levels commensurate with sagging private-sector wages.

State employees to see 1st pay cut

State employees to see 1st pay cut

TOKYO, Japan - National Personnel Authority chief Tadayoshi Nakajima (L) hands to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Aug. 8 a paper recommending a 2.03% wage cut in monthly pay for central government employees for the current fiscal year. It is the first time for the authority to recommend a wage cut since the current recommendation system started in 1948.

Cabinet OKs freeze in national civil service pay scale

Cabinet OKs freeze in national civil service pay scale

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki (2nd from L) and other Cabinet members hold a meeting on Oct. 17 to endorse the National Personnel Authority's recommendation of maintaining the current levels of basic monthly pay and bonuses for national government workers in the current fiscal year that started April 1. (Kyodo)

Gov't to transfer personnel functions to new Cabinet bureau

Gov't to transfer personnel functions to new Cabinet bureau

TOKYO, Japan - Masahito Tani, president of the National Personnel Authority, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Feb. 3 after the government decided to transfer the personnel functions of some administrative entities to a new Cabinet Secretariat office to be set up in April 2010. (Kyodo)

State employees to see 1st pay cut

State employees to see 1st pay cut

TOKYO, Japan - National Personnel Authority chief Tadayoshi Nakajima (L) hands to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Aug. 8 a paper recommending a 2.03% wage cut in monthly pay for central government employees for the current fiscal year. It is the first time for the authority to recommend a wage cut since the current recommendation system started in 1948. (Kyodo)

Gov't workers' wages to be cut

Gov't workers' wages to be cut

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (R) receives an advisory from Takeshi Erikawa, president of the National Personnel Authority, on wages for central government workers at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2011. The personnel board proposed a 0.23% cut in monthly salaries for government workers in fiscal 2011 for the third straight yearly decline, leading to a 15,000 yen cut in their average annual salaries to 6.37 million yen. (Kyodo)

Japan enacts law to allow 1st abdication of emperor in 200 years

Japan enacts law to allow 1st abdication of emperor in 200 years

Japanese Emperor Akihito (C) has lunch at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on June 9, 2017 with Teruhiko Kawato (R), president of the Board of Audit of Japan, and Nahomi Ichimiya, president of the National Personnel Authority. Japan's parliament enacted a law the same day to allow the emperor to pass the throne to his elder son, Crown Prince Naruhito. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Panel proposes record wage cuts for gov't employees

Panel proposes record wage cuts for gov't employees

TOKYO, Japan - Tadayoshi Nakajima (L), president of the National Personnel Authority (NPA), hands NPA recommendations to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at the prime minister's office on Aug. 8. The authority proposed record wage cuts for central government employees to make the levels commensurate with sagging private-sector wages. (Kyodo)